You don't need to use your imagination or squint your eyes to see that some of the objects created by Anna Ročňová look more like products of nature than the work of an artist. Their shapes branch out organically, crawl, climb somewhere, or hang limply, and in larger quantities they pile up just as organically into more extensive structures. It seems that, like nature, they carry parallel information about creation and destruction, life and death. And just as in nature, this reality is present in them somehow unintentionally and without emotional coloring—creation and destruction are simply part of the same cycle; it is a simple, plain fact. From a human perspective shaped by thousands of years of cultural history, it is difficult to free ourselves from meaningful interpretations and accept the mystery of life and death as a matter of course. But when we try to do so and allow ourselves to accept this idea, we discover that perhaps only then do life and death truly send a chill down our spine...
