In the last few years, Dagmar Šubrtová has been focusing on the theme of changes on the Earth’s surface that occur as an effect of modern civilization interventions and general mutuality of the microcosmic and macrocosmic in her artistic expression. In her selection of works for Showcase AXA Gallery, she underlines the moment of a processional motion that is going on permanently in the infinity of universal space. She chose the form of an artistic-scientific sequence of drawings, objects and paintings with simple geometric shapes, symbolic colours and specific surface texture that evoke the idea of different stages of cyclic processes in outer space. In her installation, Šubrtová works with gradual development from a sketch to a final large-format painting. Her geologic-planetary scenes create an atmosphere of prehistory and far distant future at the same time. She addresses the interspace of transformation processes delimited by the destruction of the past and creation of the future. The existence of empty space might be possible – which is something not only Buddhism yet also modern cosmology and neurology look into. Continuity also matters; a constant change of a phenomenon that keeps its nature. This brings us to the author’s long-term ongoing theme – the ‘ultra spaces’ where common time rules do not apply. Dagmar Šubrtová gives examples of such specific places – they either exist in the mode of constant slow changes (e.g. a cave); or they are open to the ‘symbolic annulation of time’ (ritual sites) yet above all, they are present in infinite amounts in outer space where we are unable to precisely identify their parameters. You can sense certain affinity in meaning in the displayed works – they give us the opportunity to enter an imaginary empty space and feel the natural creativity of a moment change.

Curated by Iva Mladičová
Photo Martin Polák