ABOUT

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 artists workshops in Poland, Slovakia, Spain, France, Italy, and 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.

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 re-identification within 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, it's a quest for an exploration of many kinds of communication. My ideas and themes were realised through juxtaposition and pasting of the 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."