Eva Hérová↓

About the work

What should people know about your work?

I have always been interested in narration. Initially the plot was carried by a human figure, later by landscape. Landscape does not have to merely play the role of a setting where something is happening, it can also be a protagonist and the narrator at the same time. It provides evidence of the existence of other players, even though they are not present. We can perceive the landscape as something other than merely a set of natural products – it also includes interiors and objects.

I try to keep the stories on the canvas open-ended. An overly defined narrative becomes a tombstone above the grave of interpretation. In my diploma work I try to create a communication channel between several canvases. Each canvas is given the chance to communicate beyond the confines of its “thematic totality”; their contents may thus also vary within the framework of their final installation.

How do you see yourself and your work five years from now?

Questions like this make me a little nervous. I get the impression that they’re not asking what they appear to be asking. Put in another way, they take into consideration a single point in time, rather than the whole route taken to reach it. In the future I want to continue to interconnect various styles of painting into one schematic whole. It will be a challenge to include monotype print.