Jana Romanova
Jana Romanova
March 20, 2015
Jana Romanova, from the series "The Alphabet of Shared Words", 2014
© Jana Romanova
Romanova is, above all, a portrait artist and uses the interaction with those she portrays for her work. At the Maidan in Kiev, Romanova asked people from different political directions for words that are consonant in both the Russian and Ukrainian languages, and asked the protagonists to imagine those words as defining the imagery for a portrait photo. The selection resulting in "The Alphabet of Shared Words" is full of surprises and shows, next to sporadic patriotically-loaded words, the commonalities of language and culture shared by these political adversaries.
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Jana Romanova, from the series "The Alphabet of Shared Words", 2014
© Jana Romanova
Jana Romanova, from the series "Immerse", 2014
© Jana Romanova
Jana Romanova, from the series "Shivilishvili", 2012/2013
© Jana Romanova
Jana Romanova, from the series "Waiting", 2009 – 2012
© Jana Romanova