JANKA SZABAD
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    • Sendepause (2018)
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    • 3 a.m. (2016)
    • Nomad's Definition of Home (2016)
    • Untitled / Universe (2015)
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    • System (2014)
    • Wax Experiment II (2014)
    • In-between / Room 7 (2014)
    • Night on Earth (2012 - 2015)
    • hINDIA (2012)
    • 5Pointz (2012)
    • Encaustics (2011)
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    • Algae (2024/25)
    • pre (2024)
    • Redefining Displacement (2023)
    • Project 308 (2022)
    • Project 195 (2020 - 2022)
    • Parallel Universe (2019)
    • Sendepause (2018)
    • Mordwand (2017)
    • 3 a.m. (2016)
    • Nomad's Definition of Home (2016)
    • Untitled / Universe (2015)
    • Wax Being (2015)
    • System (2014)
    • Wax Experiment II (2014)
    • In-between / Room 7 (2014)
    • Night on Earth (2012 - 2015)
    • hINDIA (2012)
    • 5Pointz (2012)
    • Encaustics (2011)
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YOUR CART

I am a visual artist exploring the fragile architecture of repetition, structure and control. Material is my language, change is my signature. 

Born in Slovakia I spent my formative years in North Africa, which makes me raised across continents and shaped by perpetual in-betweenness and change.
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My practice is a living archive of transformation: systems that crack, images that blur, structures that unmake themselves into something startlingly new. 
My work confronts impermanence with deliberate tactility, layering wax, pigment, photography and paper into vivid interrogations of what holds systems together - and what does not. My art is not only decoration - it is evidence, insisting on the tension between beauty and collapse.

Through series like Project 308, Wax Experiment II and Wax Being, I reclaim the narrative embedded in matter, challenging the material to speak of decay and the raw potential in disassembly. 
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​After over a decade in Southeast Asia I now live and work in Switzerland, building and unbuilding one layer at a time and try to find out what remains when surface is no longer enough.