Anna Neborová’s painting exhibition presents a selection of paintings from the last ten years and includes cycles from the author’s close environment (everyday objects, apartment-studio environment, collection of glass vases, toys, etc.). Her painting is characterized by a special authorial specialization of objectivity – decomposition of light, uncertainty of the spatial plans of the painting and work with a kind of dream or magical reality. The exhibition will open on Tuesday, July 20, 2021 from 19:00. The exhibition of the same name is published in the Czech-English edition.

The concept of the exhibition is based on the last three thematic areas (Near Phantoms, Reach and Collection), which the author focused on between 2012 and 2021. The topic groups have a clear anchorage in objectivity, but they lack sharply defined interfaces. Rather, they fulfill a tendency to permeate, complement, and intermingle. At the same time, there is a latent internal developmental movement that transforms the author’s perception. Anna Neborová’s painting of the last ten years can be said to create a kind of meta-cycle covered by an interest in an analytical view of the relationship between things and passing time in relation to the changing intimacy of the surrounding space that this relationship radiates and transforms.

“Sensitivity is important for me, both in relation to the brush, to mix our color, but also sensitivity in life. To be sensitive to things that are happening around. We do not always succeed. Nevertheless, I feel that life is such an attempt to be sensitive. ”(Anna Neborová from an interview with Jiří Kovanda in the book Shadows of Backlight)

In the series Near Phantoms, common everyday objects, such as underwear, dresses, coats or pillows, appear on the author’s canvases as ghostly apparitions, a kind of altered dream reality, in which not only shadows but also lights irrationally prolong, and where space it shrinks elastically and stretches again, or is much like paper. While in the Collection attention was paid to specific objects (glass objects) as bearers of representation (perceived solitarily or in compositions), in Nadosah, the view of the analytical nature has already significantly affected the material world – approaching surfaces, contours, frames, formwork, structures, textures, the movement of solidified substances, color accents and, above all, vistas through objects as material states.
The title of the exhibition Shadows of Backlight by the Light of Movement is a paradoxical state of the opposite, when the horizon of known experience breaks down and the existing certainties disappear in a new, even sharper one. From the original certainties, vague outlines, light and colorful references remain, memories that turn the banal world of everyday life over in a miraculous but also ghostly situation, urgently asking new questions.