Petra Feriancova

Petra Feriancova is a Slovak contemporary artist, writer and curator. In 2003 she graduated from Fine Art at the Accademia delle Belle Arti at Rome. She was awarded the Oskár Čepan Award in 2010. In 2013 Petra Feriancova represented Czech and Slovak Republic at 55th Venice Biennial with the project “Still the Same Place”. Petra Feriancova works in the intentions of post-production. The key moment of her work is the conceptualization of her own emotional reactions to the processes of perception and memory as well as an examination of the circumstances under which they are shared. She works mostly with existing images and texts, which she interprets and methodically interchanges. The main aim of this form of manipulation with a pictorial or discursive reference is to provide the spectator with the original affective reaction. Each new realization leans towards a kind of implied connection between the universe of unique personal experience and the impersonal processes of individualization, which is conditioned by civilization, history and culture.