Anett Šiklingová

The center of multiple stories in one picture, the collision of narratives, or the transfer of content into the content of another. My large-scale paintings focus primarily on combining contemporary reality and historicizing elements. I mainly use expressive expression through oil painting complemented by linearity and geometric shapes. I supplement the figures, often from the past, with contemporary fragments, usually given a different, almost absurdly unusable form. Playing with absurdity, criticism, or social reflection is found in the paintings, as well as the polemic of reality and the question of what reality is and is not. I mainly use inflatables as a tool of fragility, of the present, but also of the degradation of seriousness. I use characters, often assembled from multiple other personas, with no specific face or only a hint of one, to express myself in the painting along with fragments from elsewhere. This historicizing scene, the deformation, change, or addition of a modern fragment, creates the characteristic domain of my painting. The expressive statement and the random but not randomly added elements form the image, just like a space that dynamically changes, layers, and transforms. Moving to another plane, hitting another space, and then transforming into another space is characteristic of me, as is anchoring the figures into an in-between space. The timelessness, the center of narratives in one moment, also forms a new center of the moment, which I chaotically capture in the painting and through whose layers the viewer observes a glimpse of time on several levels. Neo Rauch, Francis Bacon, and Diego Velasquez inspire me.