Example Project felt uncanny once

Jana Martínez .. capri

2003

Jana Martínez (2003) is a Barcelona-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice moves between audiovisual work, set design, textiles, and creative direction. Her work is driven by an ongoing exploration of materials, aesthetics, and personal narratives, allowing her practice to constantly evolve through processes of experimentation, modification, and refinement.

She recently graduated in Fine Arts from BAU, Centre Universitari d’Arts i Disseny de Barcelona. During her studies, she completed an Erasmus exchange programme in Fine Arts at Kingston University in London in 2024. Previously, she studied Fashion Design at IED Barcelona during the 2021–2022 academic year, an experience that continues to inform her interest in textiles, the body, and materiality.

Jana Martínez (2003) es una artista afincada en Barcelona cuya práctica multidisciplinar se mueve entre el trabajo audiovisual, el diseño de sets, el textil y la dirección creativa. Su trabajo parte de una exploración constante de los materiales, la estética y las narrativas personales, permitiendo que su práctica evolucione a través de procesos de experimentación, transformación y desarrollo.

Recientemente se graduó en Bellas Artes por BAU, Centre Universitari d’Arts i Disseny de Barcelona. Durante sus estudios realizó un programa de intercambio Erasmus en Bellas Artes en Kingston University, Londres, en 2024. Anteriormente, estudió Diseño de Moda en IED Barcelona durante el curso 2021–2022, una experiencia que continúa influyendo en su interés por los textiles, el cuerpo y la materialidad.

Felt uncanny once London

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London, 2024

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Felt uncanny once emerged from a period of personal displacement and transformation during my stay in London. Moving to a new city became an experience of confronting both an unfamiliar environment and myself, bringing feelings of loneliness, uncertainty and the constant need to adapt. The tension between the desire to belong and the inability to fully fit in became the starting point for the project.

Through styling, makeup and the presence of the body within everyday spaces, I translate these internal states into images that move between recognition and unfamiliarity. The human figure becomes displaced and almost non-human, reflecting the duality between who we are and what we project, and between what feels familiar and what remains out of reach.

The project reflects on identity in transition and on the experience of feeling like a stranger, not only within a new environment, but within oneself. In this distance between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the project explores a different way of inhabiting, observing and understanding the self.

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