Paintings by Jana...

“Paintings by Jana Wiebe are at the interface between modern media technology and traditional painting. She finds the material for further processing, from which she makes her paintings, from image worlds that have already been formed, in the midst of the flood of images in the electronic media. From "anonymous" video and film sequences, she chooses one or more still images, which she creates as paintings.
It fixes the flowing television picture and allows it to re-emerge as a panel picturein. What is otherwise fleetingly perceived is isolated and thus analyzable. Through the medium of painting, she elevates fractions of a second of an inflationary electronic cosmos of images into the exclusive spheres of uniqueness and duration. What is otherwise fleetingly perceived is isolated and thus made visible.
At the end of the transformation process there is a picture in two senses: a picture of a picture. What remains in the end is the painting"

(Machine translation by Google)