VERONIKA PAUSOVA​​ 

Esker Foundation
January 22 – June 26

Painter Veronika Pausova draws on figurative imagery to tell diagrammatic short stories—hands grasping, noses sniffing, fruit flies teeming—that mine the territory between animation and stasis. The implied movement of these recurrent motifs serves as a proxy for the viewer; we can feel the anxious energy that results in endless scratching, tugging, or pacing within our own bodies.

These figurations form a cast of recurrent characters that evolve within and between compositions with a logic personal to the artist. Spiders with pearl-like bodies appear to be dancers in one painting, earrings in another. Elsewhere, spider legs devolve into a series of walking boots, each of which is punctuated with a single, photo-realistic big toe. The elements of Pausova’s visual vocabulary are in perpetual transformation, existing across a continuum of possible states, places, and times.

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Access: Location is wheelchair accessible

This exhibition is child friendly

Esker Foundation 4th floor, 1011 9th Ave SE Calgary T2G 0H7