At any moment, the roughness of the stone wall experiences coexistence with different textures in the picture. My works are not simple two-dimensional artistic surfaces enriched by layers of paint. They are a surface that is open to being built upon, ready to enter the third dimension. On individual parts of the picture foundation, I include rectangular or square parts in different materials. The surface of the pictures is enriched by contrasts between levelness and relief, i.e. between smooth and structured surfaces, which offers the possibility of a simultaneous visual and tactile perception of the play between light and darkness. The pictures combine gentle femininity and hard masculinity, the material and spiritual world, transience and eternity. At the same time, there appear miniature square graphic images or parallel lines, with which I create a composition of different rhythms.
The created images are always placed into a specific space that captivates me and presents a new challenge. They may become one with the space which is their current “home”. When visiting an art exhibition, we usually expect to see paintings hanging on the walls or arranged on easels. This exhibition is placed on the floor next to the walls. The whiteness of the pictures decorates, enlivens and challenges. The placement leads viewers into an unusual orientation of the space, they see it from a different perspective and different distances from those they are used to.
The implementation required extensive preparation, since prior to starting work on the many sketches, in addition to defining the compositions and suggestions, it was necessary to provide different materials and textures. Proportions, the relations between the smooth and textured surfaces, between full and empty spaces, and spaces that rise in high relief above the basic picture are all important. In creating textures, I use discarded and obsolete materials, “giving” them a new, artistically symbolically concealed message.
Every exhibition presents a new challenge, both for me and the viewers, since the pictures motivate us from different angles to meditate about the combined nature of life and death, order and chaos, the conscious and subconscious. If upon seeing a museum collection of various pieces of furniture we can talk about our history and ancestors, let seeing my exhibited works lead us to reflect upon the deep, eternal questions of life, the confirmation of our presence on Earth, with analogies of transience and spirituality. Let the past and the future combine in the present.