Lucia Dovičáková
The work of Lucia Dovičáková (video, painting, photography) is characterized mostly by a direct interpreting of the concept and tendencies towards explicit statements, sometimes colored with personal symbols.
- This is my favorite theme, Madonnas with child.00:00:26.564
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- I try to deal with my role as a mother.00:00:37.015
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- I'm scared of not being able to reconcile my art00:00:41.649
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- with family life.00:00:46.004
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- Here they look like predators or parasites.00:00:48.592
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- Lucia DOVIČÁKOVÁ Women, bad painting, braids of hair, Košice00:00:53.905
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- I try to make generalizations00:00:57.724
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- based on my personal experience.00:01:01.510
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- I get better and better with practice.00:01:12.136
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- There's no way to stop that.00:01:15.960
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- So you don't want to get worse and worse?00:01:19.460
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- Well, maybe if I found my style in that...00:01:23.542
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- But I'm not sure if I'm able to look for my style.00:01:27.529
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- Something just crosses my mind and I do it,00:01:33.274
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- without focusing on the way I do it.00:01:37.495
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- I thought about doing things in a different way00:01:42.384
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- but normally I just do something00:01:47.587
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- and then suddenly it's finished.00:01:51.230
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- This is one of my earliest paintings.00:02:04.999
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- You can see it's very different from the current ones.00:02:08.916
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- But not on purpose. I didn't know what would happen.00:02:14.411
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- It just turned out somehow.00:02:21.269
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- How women react to themselves,00:02:25.433
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- what ideas they have about femininity...00:02:28.933
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- That's all very interesting to observe and analyze.00:02:32.433
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- It's my personal research.00:02:37.798
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- I think that the fight for women's rights is over00:02:43.061
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- and now it's more about women's self-awareness,00:02:47.703
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- I feel that they are a little lost now.00:02:52.288
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- We work a lot00:02:56.530
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- and we can't realize our natural instincts,00:02:59.530
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- which causes many problems.00:03:03.699
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- It's hard to find the right moment for a baby.00:03:07.199
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- Which works am I happy with? Well, I like this one.00:03:12.003
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- But... yes, I think it's good.00:03:20.144
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- During the first crisis we had to work with porn.00:03:23.696
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- I edited photos and this is how I released the pressure.00:03:29.574
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- If you take it to the extreme,00:03:35.431
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- it's just a tool for delivering babies.00:03:38.931
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- But it was fun, although after some time...00:03:43.259
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- I don't give much thought to the form.00:03:49.543
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- I do what I feel.00:03:54.200
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- I just remember it. But I can't draw some basic things.00:03:57.372
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- I couldn't draw a lion by heart, for instance.00:04:02.243
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- What will you draw for your children?00:04:09.456
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- Well, when I see a lion and try to memorize it, I will.00:04:12.949
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- The shape of its nostrils...00:04:21.064
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- But maybe I could even draw it right away.00:04:24.564
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- I saw many documentaries about lions.00:04:28.763
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- The zoo is too crowded, I couldn't draw there.00:04:32.987
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- But I go there often.00:04:37.487
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- - So you don't draw en plein air? - No, no. I go to the zoo for fun.00:04:40.487
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- This is taken to the extreme.00:04:46.915
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- It was supposed to be a large painting00:04:50.676
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- with these ladies but I don't have enough patience00:04:57.105
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- so it's just a drawing.00:05:02.377
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- You need to organize your time.00:05:06.350
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- It's possible to combine work with art00:05:09.821
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- but sometimes it's hard to immerse in what I do.00:05:14.277
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- I don't have time to do large, demanding works.00:05:19.679
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- But maybe that's also because I lack patience.00:05:24.600
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- This is another drawing. Metal musicians.00:05:37.517
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- But it's not very good.00:05:43.435
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- This is Sissi. I worked a lot on this theme.00:05:51.342
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- She was a romantic idol of my high school friends.00:05:56.485
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- An ideal woman.00:06:01.573
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- As a child I really liked the Terminator.00:06:06.104
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- I used to play the Terminator with my cousins.00:06:13.059
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- This is Diane, the hunting goddess.00:06:19.221
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- She's another icon of femininity.00:06:25.680
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- These are older, I made them before this summer.00:06:32.277
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- These are Madonnas too.00:06:40.234
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- They are a foretaste of the one you just saw,00:06:43.673
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- the one with the little predator.00:06:48.173
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- Here I tried to deal00:06:51.642
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- with the idea of deifying women as mothers.00:06:54.642
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- The theme comes from this book I never finished.00:06:58.962
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- It talks about an accepted model of a woman00:07:11.265
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- who has no needs and devotes herself to others.00:07:16.334
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- Since I've been working for that company00:07:21.068
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- I've been making these dark brown, bland works.00:07:25.190
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- At work we make everything look beautiful and colorful00:07:30.076
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- so without thinking about it,00:07:35.774
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- I started to make gray, dark watercolor paintings.00:07:39.274
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- These are Housewives.00:07:45.331
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- They merged with the carpet.00:07:50.849
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- This is also a result of my reading that book.00:07:54.807
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- Women's place used to be in the home,00:08:00.523
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- they had to take care of it.00:08:08.101
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- The rest isn't very interesting.00:08:19.157