Jana Shostak, Minute Scream, 2022

ink, paper, 50 x 70 cm signed and dated on the reverse: ЯНА/ШОС/ТАК/2022

The presented work is a symbolic record of the ptotest that Jana Shostak initiated in the form of a minute's shout for Belarus in May 2021. The protest was held in front of the European Union representation in Warsaw. The symbolic shout was a call for decisive action against the Lukashenko regime. In her artistic practice, she focuses on activities that activate the community inside the non-artistic system. He believes in the effectiveness of art.

BIOGRAM: Jana Shostak (b. 1993) - Polish-Belarusian intermedia artist and activist, PhD student at the UA in Poznan, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (diploma in Miroslaw Balka's Studio of Spatial Activities, 2017) In May 2021, she initiated a protest in the form of a one-minute shout for Belarus, which took place daily in front of the European Union representation in Warsaw. The symbolic shout was an appeal for decisive action against the Lukashenko regime. In his artistic practice, he focuses on activities that activate the community inside the non-artistic system. She believes in the effectiveness of art.

Winner of the prestigious Passports of Polityka 2021 award. Winner of the Critics Award (Best Diplomas of the Academy of Fine Arts), Honor Mention (Start Point Prize), Grand Prix (Young Wolves '16), 1st place (Festival In Out), ZAiKS Award (Coming out '17), Robert Biedroń Award (Fish Eye Art Biennale) . She has participated in exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including Her Own Way (TOP Museum Tokyo), Art of Being Good (Tallinn Art Hall), Manifesta 11 (Zurich) and Biennale WRO Draft Systems(Wroclaw), Start Point Prize (Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam), Resistance of Form. Non-exhibition (Powszechny Theater, Warsaw).Her works are in the collections of the Lower Silesian Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts, Arsenal City Gallery, Filmoteka MSN.

MSN curator Sebastian Cichocki sums up her work, "Jana Shostak who uses art as a lockpick, breaking into other non-artistic systems such as Polish language, religious pilgrimage or beauty contest."