The Voyeur

The Voyeur, along with The Gun, create a sequence. The Gun is about empowerment and The Voyeur is about how this empowerment is transformed through the spectacle. Once an act of courage is transformed into a spectacle, its death soon occurs. History belongs to the victors as the saying goes. But it is Troj's belief that history can be rewritten by changing the narrative. Once you change perspective, the narrative changes. As the first rule of guerrilla warfare goes: know the terrain and use it to your advantage. In today’s terms this doesn’t mean studying maps of Iran or the jungles of Vietnam, it’s about knowing the cultural topography. It’s the work of artists and makers.

Iva Troj on her artvocate-exclusive series: "Artistic activism is where the creative power of the arts to move us emotionally meets the strategic planning of activism necessary to bring about social change. It’s a powerful combination. At first glance art and activism seem to have different aims. Activism moves the material world, while Art moves the heart. The thing is, social change doesn’t just appear out of nowhere, it happens because people decide to make it happen. Most people have deeply rooted belief systems. For them to change their mind about something and start acting towards change, their emotions must be engaged. It’s what Art is for. It disrupts old beliefs to ignite courage."

Iva Troj 

Iva Troj, 2020 and 2016 GAA Artist Of The Year, 2016 Palm Award Winner and 2019 CAF Artist Of The Year, is an artist known for merging Renaissance aesthetics and techniques with postmodern praxis. Her recent projects include a solo show in The Louvre, Paris and the “Master Piece” inspired by the Halo Infinite, in collaboration with Microsoft.

Her intensely detailed images achieve astonishing tricks of light and shade, as practiced by the great masters while incorporating dreamlike scenes which challenge cultural norms. Exhausted by a society in which women often feel vulnerable, threatened, or powerless, Troj recasts the fairer sex as powerful creatures, freed from the oppressive male gaze and placed within Edenic settings where they can revel in their own beauty and potential. Blending abstraction with figuration, the natural world with the urban landscape, dream with reality, Troj’s breathtakingly beautiful artworks achieve something truly unique, both in terms of aesthetics and concept.

In 2016, Troj was named Contemporary Art Excellence Artist of the Year and, in 2013, was the winner of the Towry Best of East England Award. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and her work is in collections in the UK, France, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, China, United States and Japan. In 2020, two of her paintings were included in the permanent museum exhibit at Haegeumgang Museum 해금강테마박물관] in South Korea.

Based on our agreement with the artist, 15% of the pre-VAT price excluding frames will be donated to support the social movement. Donation will be given to Atlas Network.