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Lucia Tallová’s interdisciplinary practice moves fluidly between painting, collage, object, and installation. Her work examines the relationship between memory, time, and material presence, often through a personal and feminist perspective. Using historical photographs, archival print material, and found materials such as antique furniture or natural fragments, she constructs spatial compositions that explore the interplay between permanence and ephemerality.
Despite her roots in painting, Tallová adopts a painterly sensibility throughout her multidisciplinary practice. What begins as minimal intervention on an image or object—often a mark, a stain, or a compositional shift—gradually evolves into layered assemblages and immersive installations. Her exhibition projects are conceived as integrated environments in which no single medium dominates; rather, each element reinforces the next, creating a dynamic visual and spatial dialogue. Painting frequently extends into sculptural or architectural space, disrupting conventional viewing modes and encouraging new forms of engagement.
A recurring focus of Tallová’s work is the re-examination of overlooked female narratives and marginalized histories. Through appropriation and reinterpretation of photographic archives, she repositions women—often anonymous or erased by history—as central figures within reconstructed storylines. This gesture is both poetic and political, grounding the work in contemporary discourse while maintaining an atmosphere of quiet introspection.
Materiality plays a key role in her process. Aged surfaces, imperfections, and traces of wear are treated not as signs of decline but as active carriers of meaning. These visual residues generate ambiguity and allow for associative readings. By layering, recontextualizing, and combining fragments from disparate sources, Tallová creates fictional memory archives that remain open to interpretation.
While rooted in analog processes and tactile methods, her work speaks to broader questions about how we construct, preserve, and distort memory—particularly in an age of acceleration and dematerialization. Rather than documenting history, Tallová evokes its presence, inviting viewers into spaces of reflection, transformation, and resonance.