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lillagombos · 2 months ago

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a shadow grows legs then walks across the room Diploma work at VŠVU Bratislava 2025

Untitled, oil on canvas, 155x200cm, 2025

Untitled, oil on canvas, 155x185cm, 2025

Untitled, oil on canvas, 155x190cm, 2025

Untitled, oil on canvas, 70x80cm, 2025

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lillagombos · 1 year ago

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2024 Studio of Visiting Professor Hana Garová & Mgr. art. Matúš Novosad, PhD. at Academy of Fine arts and Design, Bratislava

Installation view

Bat lab 2, Oil on canvas, 50x40cm, 2024

Tree hollow, Oil on canvas, 175x170cm, 2024

Wild cherry tree bark 2, Oil on canvas, 75x120cm, 2024

Wild cherry tree bark, Oil on canvas, 45x30cm, 2024

Arachnid, Oil on canvas, 80x90cm, 2024

Naked mole-rat baby, Oil on canvas, 80x80cm, 2024

Armadillo, Oil on canvas, 70x50cm, 2024

Bat lab, Oil on canvas, 40x30cm, 2024

Scarab beetle, Oil on canvas, 40x30cm, 2024

Northern crab spider, Oil on canvas,100x90cm, 2024

Metallic crab spider, Oil on canvas, 50x70cm, 2024

Salamander, Oil on canvas, 50x80cm, 2024

White Stone, Acrylic on canvas, 130x160cm, 2024

Hoglet, Oil on canvas, 180x170cm, 2024

a shadow grows legs, then walks across the room

A familiar place, like home, reveals something hidden. Secret doors. Unknown rooms. The strange becomes familiar, or the familiar turns strange. People you know change in some way. Fairy tales aren't the only way the peripheral can enter daily life. More often these encounters with the peripheral are fleeting, occurring at the edge of awareness, making them unreliable, like dreams or other altered states of consciousness. Visual pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon where vague or unclear stimuli are perceived as meaningful images through imagination. A typical example is when people find familiar shapes in chaotic or indeterminate visual phenomena, like recognizing faces of animals and other creatures in the shape of clouds. In this sense, it also relates to how we perceive human or non-human identities: subjecting them to fictional categories. In this series of paintings, I work with pixelated photos of animals and nature from my archive or found pictures from the internet. I select sections and fragments that seem compositionally interesting or absurd and work with their abstraction and fragmentation. The blurriness of the photos allows me to emphasize their light or color qualities when transferring them to the paintings, where I also incorporate the translucence of the acrylic underlayers from previous works. The use of oil paint gives me the ability to blend the sharp outlines of the depicted motifs, achieving more sensitive, dreamlike renditions of the paintings.

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lillagombos · 2 years ago

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2023 Studio of Visiting Professor Zbyněk Sedlecký & Mgr. art. Matúš Novosad, PhD. at Academy of Fine arts and Design, Bratislava

Installation view

Pricky spines, mixed media object, 24x30x30cm, 2023

Muddy children, mixed media object, 60x110x25cm, 2023

Soft spines, mixed media object, 25x29x15cm, 2023

Poke your eyes out, mixed media object, 30x25cm, 2023

Thorny children, mixed media object, 33x64cm, 2023

Spike grid, mixed media object, 88x30cm, 2023

Succulent, mixed media object, 80x122x44cm, 2023

Hana, mixed media object, 52x83x23cm, 2023

In your web, cut your name into my leg

She took a step closer to him, then stopped. He scared her somehow. She could not make herself approach him. "Something is wrong," she said. "Who are you?" He moved slightly. "And what am I?" She jumped because that was what she had almost said. "I'm not a man," he said. "I'm not a human being." She moved back against the bed, but did not sit down. "Tell me what you are." "I'm here to tell you. . . and 'show you. Will you look at me now?" Since she was looking at him-it--she frowned. "The light-'' "It will change when you're ready." "You're. . . what? From some other world?" "From a number of other worlds. You're one of the few English speakers who never considered that she might be in the hands of extraterrestrials." "I did consider it," Lilith whispered. "Along with the possibility that I might be in prison, in an insane asylum, in the hands of the FBI, the CIA, or the KGB. The other possibilities seemed marginally less ridiculous." The creature said nothing. It stood utterly still in its corner, and she knew from her many Awakenings that it would not speak to her again until she did what it wished- until she said she was ready to look at it, then, in brighter light, took the obligatory look.

(...)

Lilith glanced at the humanoid body, wondering how humanlike it really was. "I don't mean any offense," she said, "but are you male or female?" 1

1 Butler, Octavia (1987). Dawn (Xenogenesis).

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lillagombos · 2 years ago

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2023 Fictional body - Bachelor works at Studio 3EAM of Mgr. art. Rastislav Sedlačík, ArtD. and Mgr. art. Matej Fabian, ArtD. Academy of Fine arts and Design, Bratislava