(*1985, Želiezovce)

2004 – 2010, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava in the studio of Professor Daniel Fischer.

The author is a newcomer in the final round of the competition. This year she successfully scored and got to the exhibition selection of the Essl Award 2011. The final painting is part of a larger series, which she presented at a solo exhibition in Levice called Bloggers. The laconic title refers to the background of the creation of the series, the author noticed blogs of women and girls suffering from anorexia nervosa and bulimia. She collects their photos and texts and it is this collection that has become the basis for a larger series of portraits. The resulting compositions are not repainted photographs, they are the result of montages or were inspired by a model. The characters are painted on a background of wallpaper and comic bubbles containing transcripts of authentic sayings from blogs. In most of the paintings, with the exception of the enrolled painting, the figures do not have their heads depicted, as if their loss of judgement associated with the manifestations of the disease were made visible in this way. The subject is the female nude (the affected girls are always photographed underdressed, so that their suffering and successes are evident), which goes against its tradition – from a traditional celebration of the female body, in the painter's rendition it becomes a document of illness, an indictment of the current trend, a parody of the female body. The thesis of parody is underlined by the "ugly" painting used by the author.

(The text is from the catalogue for the competition Painting 2011, A. Kusá)

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https://adcslovensko.sk/clenovia/csilla-polak