"Echoes of Time & Echoes of Memories" Monika Žáková Solo ExhibitionDOUBLE Q Gallery

Monika Žáková: Echoes of Time, Echoes of Memory

The first solo exhibition of Prague-based artist Monika Žáková at Double Q presents her two most recent series of paintings, Echoes of Time and Echoes of Memories. As the title suggests, Žáková's work in these two series (as well as in her previous practice) focuses on the traces, imprints, passages or stamps left by time and the presence of force on the material itself. However, to speak of them as poetic ephemeral gestures would be too naive – in the author's case we encounter a precise and thoughtful work in which there is a cautious equilibrium between the uniqueness of the material and the use of its self-referentiality and the application of various degrees of control with which she approaches the medium. Despite the fact that the two series bear many common denominators, as one might expect in the practice of a single artist, what separates them are the two distinct temporal grants through which the artist grasps them. This is because the one in Echoes of Time is strongly organic, changing, unstable and irregular, at times even physical, which can be understood as traces of flux and entropy. Whereas in Echoes of Memories we observe structural and mentally precise proportions of the pictorial plan corresponding to the way the brain stores and reconstructs memories and eventually constructs memory.

Time and temporality and their imprint thus play an important role in these two series. Time as the fourth dimension of 3D space is examined from a number of interdisciplinary perspectives. This broad spectrum of scientific approaches also includes an engagement with time in relation to the human body and memory. Thus, time is humanized to the extent that it depicts a temporal experience, but one that we know exists on two levels: the collective sense of time, the only one we can all agree on, which is not identical to our private sense of now. The experience of time is therefore, in short, deeply personal, even as it is bound up with social life. And the tension between these two layers of temporality is then closely linked to the way we use narrative.

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