Markéta Adamcová↓

About the work

What should people know about your work?

A precondition for my diploma work was that its main part should come about in a different cultural-historical milieu. In the end it was done during a half-year stay in Indonesia. This ‘escape’ was a manoeuvre on my part through which I wanted to draw on new experience in an unfamiliar environment. The aspect of painting that interests me is the ‘gathering’ of motifs from the surroundings, whether they be emptied-out symbols, signs or animal motifs that can represent a certain emotion, state of mind, or can function as a reference to an experienced reality. But I also like to use certain principles of abstract painting, modifying their nature in such a way as to use these elements to create my own atlas of things. Shapes disappear, emerge and merge in order to just briefly hint at the appearance of ‘something’.

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

Five years from now I hope – probably like all of us – to be able to continue to devote myself fully to my work. Hopefully I’ll have read a lot of books and maybe also written something engaging. But as of right now, my vision of myself and my work in five years’ time is about the same as my expectation of what’ll be happening next year. A long time ago, I thought I’d be a writer, now, however, I’m mostly doing something else, even though most of the time when I’m in my room that’s how I feel – I’m very unlikely to find a pencil here and draw a line. I feel the same when I’m moving around. I only think about paintings when I’m in my studio (workspace). So, five years from now, this could predominate. Maybe I’ve written something in my diary, but otherwise I don’t know what I’ll be doing tomorrow.