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I hide, you hide, he hides, she hides, we hide, you hide, they hide… In the corner, beneath the table, inside a wardrobe, under a tree, in a hole, beneath a blanket, among the clouds… What is a hiding place? Is it a safe space that protects us from every danger? Or is it a dangerous space that cannot protect us from ourselves? My initial search led me to a tree - more specifically, to the spruce tree we had at home. We used to run beneath it, keep our toys there, and spend hours underneath its branches because it was enormous. Yet there were also strange, even unsettling moments that we did not want anyone to witness. As a result, what had once seemed like a “safe” space became an unpredictable place…
During the summer semester, I continued my long-standing interest in painting as a space of inner conflict and transformation, focusing on the motifs of protagonism and antagonism. The initial impulse came from Paolo Uccello’s Saint George and the Dragon. I shifted my attention to the spaces of the boiler room and the smokehouse, places where profoundly intense moments charged with existential significance unfolded. Throughout the paintings and objects, motifs such as the dragon, the willow creature (vrbáč), fire, smoke, and the boiler recur as metaphors…
