Night Shift is Jan Durina’s first show in Hungary at Liget Gallery as well as his first solo exhibition since 2023.
The exhibition deals with the idea of shifting realities, vulnerability, refuge and immersion, all under the watchful eye of nightfall. Leaving behind external expectations, an intuitive process emerges throughout the realisation of the exhibition, bringing together the longing for plainspoken aesthetics, eroticism and tenderness, care and exhaustion and the closeness of the burdens of the self. Eventually, the night becomes a symbolic territory in which another form of attention can emerge.
Jan Durina (*1988, Žilina, Slovakia) is a Slovak interdisciplinary artist, musician, curator and researcher based in Prague, and co-founder of the performance collective Romeo & Hellion. His work moves fluidly between photography, drawing, performance and sound, exploring loneliness, vulnerability, and the boundaries between nature, the body and identity, grounded in queer, feminist and ecofeminist thought.