Anna Šmejcová↓

About the work

What the fuck is this

„What the fuck is this?“ I believe that this question is a fundamental starting point and proof of successful relating to reality. If we get into a successful interaction with an object, with life, with an animal, with the world, with the universe, with a stone, with a turkey, with anything, we must legitimately begin and end with the opinionated feeling „What the fuck is that“. Therefore, I would consider it to be a success if a person reacted to my paintings in this way. If they looked at them and asked themselves this. It would, however, be a failure to create them for that purpose. You have to make them with that feeling towards the world and convey it that way.

Immediacy is of the essence.

It would be a failure to strive for it. One must be in immediacy. Immediacy must happen. Otherwise it is not immediacy.

Immediacy is the blurring of the line between me and what I draw. Forgetting everything I know about it, what I think about it, what I fear about it. Immediacy is sneezing, getting scared, yawning. An activity that is free-flowing, must be done now, and there is nothing else in the course of doing it.

In order to make creating in immediacy work, one needs to know as much as possible. Not the other way around! For we are trapped in an artificial structure with which we interpret the world. Knowing opens new doors of perception, allows us to become more aware of things and to rethink our ossified approaches.

Art is a celebration of perception. Humans are equipped not only with senses that enable them to perceive, but also with the ability to realize that they have them. Once we are aware that we perceive, we have the opportunity to experiment with our perception. To critique it, to see how it works, what its limits are, to rejoice in it, or to be driven mad by it.