JANKA SZABAD
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    • Algae (2024)
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    • 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)
    • Paintings (2010 - 2013)
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  • home
  • Artist Statement
  • Work
    • Algae (2024)
    • 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)
    • Paintings (2010 - 2013)
  • CV
  • contact
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YOUR CART

I am a visual disruptor exploring the fragile architecture of repetition, structure and control. Material is my language. My work confronts impermanence with deliberate tactility, layering wax, pigment, photography and paper into vivid interrogations of what holds us together - and what does not. I strip beauty from collapse, deconstructing control and fracturing nostalgia. 

Born across continents and shaped by perpetual in-betweenness, my practice is a living archive of transformation: systems that crack, images that blur, structures that unmake themselves into something startlingly new.

Through series like Project 308, Wax Experiment II and Wax Being, I reclaim the narrative embedded in matter, forcing material to speak of the quiet violence of decay and the raw potential in disassembly. My art is not decoration - it is evidence, insisting on the tension between beauty and collapse.
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​I live and work in Singapore, building and unbuilding one layer at a time and try to find out what remains when surface is no longer enough.

​I do not create decoration. I create confrontation.