Magdalena Turzová

13.1 EYE ON YOU (Artwork)

Magdalena Turzová – Department of Art Education, Faculty of Education, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic

Abstract:

The series of paintings Eye on You is a selection of works created in recent years, during which my painting has focused on themes of relationships, the complexity of family ties, issues of upbringing and surveillance, faith and religion, control, and personal freedom. It is not essential whether the subject of the painting is based on observed and experienced reality (portraits of close persons, personal intimate spaces) or an appropriated image (film stills, family photo archives, reproductions of artworks). I often use and combine both. The meaning lies in the ambiguous and often contradictory messages conveyed by the depicted objects. I leave it to the viewer to analyse these objects in their ambivalence and existential urgency.