A7 Gallery... is a project of mine from a few years back.
I practiced the project on various addresses before but I settled down here.
We are in the 365.labb space which is the local community and creative center in Banská Bystrica.
We focus on established, contemporary artists who are active in the current art scene, regardless of the art media they work with.
Our dramaturgy is more or less loose and you can also see local people from the region in the program.
When we were preparing the exhibition program for 2020, we as a gallery have a lot of young artists.
Some of them are completely unknown, some of them are established but we wanted to include one big name.
Pavlína has a very wide creative range.
She is a multimedia artist, so there are photos, videos, and objects.
The starting point is always conceptual.
She focuses on videos with psycho-social topics, she often does participatory artworks when she works with civilians.
An important part of her work is the autobiographical side of it and this exhibition returns to it.
It's not made in a factual way but rather more emotional, even therapeutic in a way.
One part of the exhibition contains photos I took way back in a cycle that began as a loose cycle but
later on I took some additional photos because I got contacted by Jana Bodnárová, a Slovak writer.
We collaborated together on her book Koža (Skin) that also got nominated for Anasoft Litera.
So these photos were taken back in 2019 but the series wasn't displayed anywhere until now.
The next parts of the exhibition were experimental, I worked with objects, videos in a completely different way compared to my other projects.
I moved away from the ephemerality and I move towards the object.
On the other side, I use my energy stream a lot more in the meaning of performance... bodywork.
That goes for the photos too, every one of them is a performative gesture.
The video I present is also a performative expression of emotional reflection of various problems of people in isolation.
I didn't want this to seem strictly like a personal story but I wanted to create a parallel with various situations, a matrix that can become a reality for many people.
And at the same time, I also try to find an expression that would become universal.
I consider the process as interesting and important for me and I hope it will bring something new into my communication with people who like my work.