Jana
Jana Machatová finds memory residue in family photo albums. She also likes to uncover anonymous narratives, defragmenting and reconstructing unknown lives hidden in the dust of old magazines and postcards. Love is apparent in her portraits of couples radiant with happiness; she emphatically and attentively inlays it in fantasy and melancholic scenes evoking the visuality of a classical type of jewelry, a locket with a photo inside, pertaining particularly to the functions of memory, sorrow and loyalty. Her jewelry shows that she does not rely on linear time. She assures us that although the pain of loss will never disappear, deep and flattened furrows of time will remain preserved in a tiny smile and pathetic officiality, a moving gesture of a hand, in vistas of lenses.
— Viera Kleinová