About

Vena Naskrecka was born in 1986 in Czestochowa, Poland. She is an international artist presenting her art mainly in Ireland, England, Switzerland, Norway, Poland, Greece and Netherlands.

Vena received diploma in ceramics from Jacek Malczewski School of Fine Arts in her hometown. Her education continued in Academy Minerva, The Netherlands, where she graduated Bachelor degree in Fine Arts. Her final project joined sculpture, readymade and live action elements. For this work of art Vena won the Klass Dijkstra Academieprijs and received promotion grand what allowed her to participate in Performance Art Workshops in Berlin. From 2015 Vena holds a First Class Honours Master in Art and Process from Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork, Ireland, thesis ‘The Perception of Human Existence in Unsettled Bodily Circumstances’ was the next step to improve her own visual and conceptual vocabulary. She has practiced her skill in several dance classes and workshops.

 

Statement

For my art practice I am deeply interested in the human perception and its phenomenology. In order to develop my knowledge, I actively engage in creating performance and video art.

Inspired by my own health issues in childhood and adolescence (I had to wear orthopedic corset for the ten years) as well by the new discoveries about human functioning, I focus my practice in subject-object relationships, its movements and appearance in space.

Environment, places and history shape how we perceive existence. Someone experiences a place based on knowledge and personal alikeness. Several cultures perceive the human body and the mental body as different aspects of one’s existence, the division of body and soul in western Christian culture separates mental and physical problems that in my opinion are one and should be treated holistically.

My theoretical research includes philosophy, psychology, kinesiology and neuroscience. I create my artwork by reading and investigating J. Lacan, S. Zizek, J. Kristeva, J. Derrida, H. Ehrsson and M. Feldenkrais. Furthermore, I look into new technologies and prosthetics used into medicine. New knowledge about perception provides material for my art and helps me to redefine and explore what human and objects are.

Difficult circumstances, medical treatments and equipment change perception about self and environment, and in turn enable to understand the nature of human existence even further.