Lucie Rosická↓

About the work

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall uses self-portraits to look at contemporary society and the influence of technology and social media on human perception. The title comes from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and was specifically inspired by the magic mirror from this well-known fairy tale, which conspicuously resembles a large mobile telephone. Rosická combines this motif with the contemporary phenomenon of the “selfie” and the never-ending search for affirmation on social networks.

With this piece, the artist follows on her earlier work in which she explored the themes of beauty, observation, and perception. Rosická has long worked with self-portraits as a way of expressing personal thoughts and emotions. The exhibition features paintings created during her Magnus Art residency in Karlovy Vary in 2024 – some of them were even fossilized using mineral spring water. This stoniness, in fact, refers to the rigidity and passivity that characterize the consumption of online content, the static poses people hold for photographs, and the desire to document and „set in stone“ anything that we might forget. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall is dominated by a quilted work that documents the artist’s life in an almost diary-like manner. The goal is for the work to overwhelm the viewer, just as social networks do.