Adéla Janská (1981) focuses in her work primarily on the theme of female identity. Her nudes and portraits are inspired by porcelain dolls, whose features symbolise unattainable ideals of feminine beauty. Janská places her solitary female figures, with their glossy porcelain skin, into closed, fragmented spaces that resemble dollhouses, creating an atmosphere of isolation, suspended time, and tension between intimacy and alienation. Her distinct female protagonists sometimes engage the viewer with direct eye contact, combining sensual provocation with delicate vulnerability. Devoid of physical substance yet perfectly beautiful, her unsettling female figures resemble modern nymphs who challenge stereotypical erotic imagery. Janská graduated from the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, though her artistic development has been shaped above all by her Czech surroundings, as well as by European and world painting. In addition to frequent exhibitions in the Czech Republic, she regularly shows her work internationally, with recent solo exhibitions in Paris, New York, Rome, Warsaw, Vienna, and Bucharest. Her paintings have also featured in group shows in Poland, Austria, China, the United States, and the United Kingdom. She lives and works in her native city of Olomouc.
