About Sara Czerny

ARTIST STATEMENT

In my works, I explore the unpredictability of life and form, the instability of perception and the ambiguity of words and meanings. I am interested in how reality is constructed through proportion, perspective, shape, light and colour, and how these structures can be exposed, bent or interrupted. I question the authority of established systems and rules just as I question so called life truths and conditioned perspectives. I like to reveal the hidden mechanisms, and naked truths, I make use of symbols and associations, often elevating them to the level of absurdity and satire. My paintings balance between humour and discomfort, control and disruption, construction and collapse. Distortion plays a central role in my work: bodies stretch, fold or rip, proportions shift, perspective gets fragmented, shadows contradict their sources. I use deformation and deconstruction as tools to destabilize what seems fixed.

I mix media and techniques freely, I believe in synthetic approach, my inspiration is both organic and constructed. I let myself be inspired by poetry, music, nature, art, emotions, theories or concepts. I often use text to fill in the missing parts of the story, drop clues or to reveal how words can be shallow and not followed by consequence. I use colour systematically to create structure and add more levels of meaning to my paintings. I often use controlled, minimalistic palletes, based on primary colours, contrasting schemes or symbolism. I do not aim to produce closed narratives, my works, even though thoughtfully detailed and often personal, remain open and welcoming to interpretation.