Natália Junasová is a young Slovak artist from Partizánske, born in 1990. Her remarkable artistic talent and extraordinary childhood imagination were noticeable from an early age. From 2005 to 2010, she studied applied painting at the Private Conservatory of Applied Arts Dezider Kardoš in Topoľčany, and subsequently, she completed specialized training in promotional art and hand processing of textiles at the same school.
Her paintings are characterized by a high degree of artistic abstraction, achieved through simplified object outlines created mainly from linear strokes and bold colors. In her work, she explores microbiological relationships, the functioning of various phenomena in the world around her, and delves into ancient cultures and their legacy while observing natural human curiosity. She does not shy away from examining consumer society and social relationships within it, as well as emotions in their elemental form. Her goal is to provoke reflection on serious questions through positive emotions.
“I connect seemingly unrelated relationships and emotions with a kind of network into a single positively perceived whole because art is a gift of seeing the world through different eyes. I merge the male and female parts into one positively perceived whole because humanity should unite, not divide. The network I create in my works is like grasping, capturing, and keeping those emotions for oneself while simultaneously intertwining this idea among others. Not to see differences and otherness as something that doesn’t belong to this society, but to bring harmony and cast nets for understanding different opinions, beliefs, or sexualities.”
