Eve Obrochta Graduated in Fine Arts – Krakow, Poland. Before graduation Obrochta received a scholarship from the National Fund in Warsaw (1996) and in 2002 was among the winners of the Polish Young Art Festival in New York. Obrochta Participated in an eight-month scholarship in France at L Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts and took part in the International Festival of Independents “No Soul for Sale” at TATE Modern in London.
Obrochta has taken part in various artist s workshops in Poland, Slovakia, Spain, France and Italy, London and has produced several gallery installations as well as taken part in a performance art collaboration with other artists. Her interests include painting, collage, photography, set design video shorts and performance. She collaborated with a group Pail /Polish Artist in London/ -as a Stage designer.
Obrochta is trying to present contemporary tendencies that she encounters in everyday life. The subject of her interest belongs to questions on gender identity, personal image and face representations. The complexity of her exhibitions contains many primal elements of human behaviours, life moments of breakthrough, negation and suppression in illustrating our life-path. Obrochta ’s compositions speak about the level of identification with chosen elements of reality. It concerns a concept of duality, destabilization of the human entity in a mundane routine world. She says:” I believe that art is an experiment, its a quest for an exploration of many kinds of communication.”
Self-taught or at school?
I graduated from Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland.
If you could own one work of art would it be?
Yayoi Kusama‘s yellow dotted pumpkin.
How would you describe your style?
At this moment the technique that I have chosen to communicate it’s a collage style.
Can you tell us about your artistic process?
My ideas and themes were realised through juxtaposition and pasting of the particular images from the discarded magazines, my drawings and photos. Sometimes I am using acrylics to bring it all together. The process of making the work is a combination of deliberate, closely constructed compositions, intuitive actions in terms of cutting or tearing or editing with the unexpected events that this medium presents. I am also using the Photoshop program to bring some ideas and visions to the light.
Is narrative important within your work?
Yes, the presentation of certain facts is important.
Who are your favourite artists and why?
I have many favourite artists throughout the stages of art history until now, including my friends.
I appreciate J.Vermeer –a Dutch painter for the presence of the music in some of his paintings, hi was a master of the play of light.
I like art Hannah Hoch German Dada artist for her political collages and photomontages from 1920 for her striking compositions about dysfunctional politics of Weimar Germany.
I admire Trisha Brown American choreographer and dancer for her unconventional experimental series…“Walking on the wall” from 70’s.
I remember coming back to see her work a few times when the exhibition was held in Barbican (London). Dancers performing on the flat roofs in Manhattan, or those roped-up walking down the sides of buildings. ..that is a phenomenal piece of art. I like the fact that the artists in those days were focusing on the social world and experiments with music.
Pauline Boty, British painter for her vibrant pop art portraits, American artist-
Judy Chicago for her perception of space and boldness.
Dorothea Tanning for her uncanny soft sculptures and surreal darkroom installation “Chambre 202”. I like also American multimedia artist Tony Oursler for his thought-provoking video installations, projections.
What or who inspires your art?
Like I mentioned before my inspirations are coming from observation and experience. From everyday life, the internet or TV. Whatever captures my interest. I do admire art from between the war times including composers like I.Stravinsky or painters like K.Malewich (his Suprematist compositions).
Recently I was looking at the‘ The Night Train” surreal painting by Paul Delvaux. There is something mysterious and theatrical here. The ambience of the spacious waiting room, with the big front door where people are departing, or waiting, leaving their own homes, cities. The female’s body is beautifully painted. I associate this painting with the thought of an unknown journey, the beginning of something new (a side effect of a lockdown?)
Where is your studio and what’s it like?
At the moment I don’t have a studio. All my recent artworks I created on the kitchen floor.
Do you have any studio rituals?
Before I make a mess I like to hear the music in the background.
What are you working on currently?
I am working on “Destabilisation portraits” series of images, people’s portraits from which abstract forms arise.
Where can we buy your art?
Only via direct message on my Instagram page.
