Yana Knight. Juried Artist
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Artist Statement
Yana Knight is an artist currently based in Stockholm (Sweden) and Brussels (Belgium) who transforms her life into comics, zines and graphic novels. Yana’s work is playfully experimental, often mixing multiple materials and old and new technologies in a single work.
Yana’s comics and cartoons are rooted in personal experiences and small but important everyday life’s delights. Her method of comic making is one where stories, memories and experiences of everyday life are transformed into visual fragments or narratives – part real life, part fiction – in a playful, humorous way.
She has recently added Artificial Intelligence to her artistic palette alongside the more traditional ways of image making (drawings, photos, block printing) as a material to create new surprising narratives and comics.
Subtly through her work she draws attention to larger more universal themes such as nature’s cycles, environment, transformation and finding ways to live in a changing landscape.
About the artists
Yana Knight is an emerging artist currently based in Stockholm, Sweden and Brussels, Belgium. She makes comics, zines and graphic novels and shows others how to do the same in workshops both online and in person. Yana’s work can be found in the collection of the Musée d’Art Spontané in Brussels and has been featured in the Dutch Design Week. She has a very colourful background, having lived in six countries, and these diverse personal experiences serve as a basis for her work. Self-taught in the arts for the most part, Yana emphasises research and experimentation and has throughout her career worked with a host of materials, from traditional oils and watercolours to crushed autumn leaves and chocolate sweets wrappers. She has authored two self-published graphic novels “My Story” (2018) and “My Country” (2020) and her work has been shown in a number of solo and group exhibitions since 2017.
She is currently looking at the creative potential of artificial intelligence and creative technologies for her artistic practice searching for innovative, unconventional forms of storytelling at the Stockholm University.
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