Exhibition
Marie Lukáčová: Roaring fluids
29 5 — 29 6 2025
29 5 — 29 6 2025
The opening will take place on May 29, 2025, at 6 PM.
Curator: Veronika Čechová
Marie Lukáčová is an artist who works with a variety of media, including drawing, film, animation, rap music, text, and performance. Her works often consist of multilayered installations. The hallmark of her oeuvre is a directness bordering on audacity and a way of playing with human imagination and the established order. A fragmentation of references from the fields of politics, mythology, science, and pop culture forms a mosaic of the interdependence and complexity of the contemporary world. Her artistic practice transcends genres, from drama to absurdist comedy, using fiction, humor, and elements of the grotesque to create complex exhibition environments that speak of contemporary social challenges.
sadness burns in the eyes like the tears from slicing an onion
In recent years Lukáčová has intuitively explored human experience in her drawings using metaphors related to cooking. Ingredients for the preparation of various dishes are endowed with unexpected symbolism, shedding new light on actions that are deeply embedded in our everyday life. The exhibition Roaring Fluids presents a set of images in which the playful depiction of ingredients of both plant and animal origin becomes a sophisticated metaphor for a wide range of emotions and social interactions. The process of preparing food, from selecting the ingredients to adding the finishing touches, is conceived here as an allegory of the inner processing of experience, the dynamics of relationships, and the shaping of our lived reality.
anger simmers and threatens to bubble to the surface
In Lukáčová’s images the individual components of the culinary process—cutting, mixing, cooking, baking, seasoning—become symbols for the way we learn to process and integrate our emotions. The results of this “cooking” are as variable as human destinies; they can be sweet and harmonious or bitter and hard to digest. The artist presents visually rich compositions whose primary meaning, however, lies not in mere representation but rather in the evocation of deeper, often hidden layers of experience.
warming love spills through the body
Parallel to this culinary metaphor, Marie Lukáčová’s work has a powerful feminist meaning. The artist critically reflects on the stereotypical gender roles that are traditionally associated with taking care of a household and its members. The kitchen, often marginalized as an exclusively female space, is transformed in her images into a space for a discussion about inequalities, about challenging social expectations, and about the need to rethink our perception of “domestic” work. By depicting cooking, which in Lukáčová’s conception is synonymous with care, the artist points to the invisible but essential role of these activities for the functioning of society and for the formation of interpersonal bonds, at the same time highlighting the need for their adequate recognition.
Like a complex meal, the work of Maria Lukáčová leaves a lasting impression on the recipients, compelling them to reflect on the connections between our inner world and our outer environment and how our most intimate experiences are often articulated through the most ordinary activities.
What all is stewing inside each of us right now?
Marie Lukáčová is an artist who works with a variety of media, including drawing, film, animation, rap music, text, and performance. Her works often consist of multilayered installations. The hallmark of her oeuvre is a directness bordering on audacity and a way of playing with human imagination and the established order. A fragmentation of references from the fields of politics, mythology, science, and pop culture forms a mosaic of the interdependence and complexity of the contemporary world. Her artistic practice transcends genres, from drama to absurdist comedy, using fiction, humor, and elements of the grotesque to create complex exhibition environments that speak of contemporary social challenges.
sadness burns in the eyes like the tears from slicing an onion
In recent years Lukáčová has intuitively explored human experience in her drawings using metaphors related to cooking. Ingredients for the preparation of various dishes are endowed with unexpected symbolism, shedding new light on actions that are deeply embedded in our everyday life. The exhibition Roaring Fluids presents a set of images in which the playful depiction of ingredients of both plant and animal origin becomes a sophisticated metaphor for a wide range of emotions and social interactions. The process of preparing food, from selecting the ingredients to adding the finishing touches, is conceived here as an allegory of the inner processing of experience, the dynamics of relationships, and the shaping of our lived reality.
anger simmers and threatens to bubble to the surface
In Lukáčová’s images the individual components of the culinary process—cutting, mixing, cooking, baking, seasoning—become symbols for the way we learn to process and integrate our emotions. The results of this “cooking” are as variable as human destinies; they can be sweet and harmonious or bitter and hard to digest. The artist presents visually rich compositions whose primary meaning, however, lies not in mere representation but rather in the evocation of deeper, often hidden layers of experience.
warming love spills through the body
Parallel to this culinary metaphor, Marie Lukáčová’s work has a powerful feminist meaning. The artist critically reflects on the stereotypical gender roles that are traditionally associated with taking care of a household and its members. The kitchen, often marginalized as an exclusively female space, is transformed in her images into a space for a discussion about inequalities, about challenging social expectations, and about the need to rethink our perception of “domestic” work. By depicting cooking, which in Lukáčová’s conception is synonymous with care, the artist points to the invisible but essential role of these activities for the functioning of society and for the formation of interpersonal bonds, at the same time highlighting the need for their adequate recognition.
Like a complex meal, the work of Maria Lukáčová leaves a lasting impression on the recipients, compelling them to reflect on the connections between our inner world and our outer environment and how our most intimate experiences are often articulated through the most ordinary activities.
What all is stewing inside each of us right now?