Dora Hlinková


CZ

Hotels

2024

oil, oil pastels, pencil, colored pencils on canvas/solite

various sizes

The paintings, along with the essay, illustrate my endless exploration of home. Exploration is a journey that is both physical and spiritual. It is a path I take over and over again, but I never reach the desired destination. The journey represents long moments in the mountains, where I search for a place to lay my head. A place where the ground would be flat and mellow and the cows won't step on my head in the morning. So I look for that physical place during my journeys and pilgrimages. 

I find the journey very inspiring, perhaps because it is a direct metaphor for my mind's journey. Journeys of thought that lead me to deep reflections on the meaning of the world and the meaning of my own existence. About freedom and the anxiety that freedom involves. Freedom that is limited by the boundaries of  Home. 

I find many homes along the way—places I will never see again. People I'll never meet again. I'm getting to know myself, my mind and my body, which will merge with the dust, and then it won't exist. I am discovering a world that loves me, and when I exhale my last breath, this very world will be gone.

Every sleeping place I've ever made my bed in will be covered in snow. Every home you borrow you must then return.

I find the answers to my loneliness, to the futility and absurdity of the world, and to my own existence. It is in my perception of myself in context of the landscape. Getting closer to nature. Only in the context does a work of art make sense. So for a moment, I accept the simple answer to my questions about my place, my identity, and the meaning of things. I am a human being, a woman, and a child. Home is my body, my head, the good people around me, nature, the planet, and the universe. It's here and now. I don't need to know anything more at that moment, and so I fall asleep peacefully under the open sky in a "milion–star hotel."


Peeing in a home, 2024, oil on canvas
A five–star hotel, 2024, oil on canvas, 40 × 40 cm
The soup, 2024, oil on canvas, 50 × 50 cm
Recreation, 2024, oil, colored pencils on canvas, 60 × 80 cm
The bubbles, 2024, oil   on canvas, 60 × 80 cm
Different perspectives, 2023, oil on sololite, 123 × 31 cm
All the stuff I need, 2023, oil, pencil on sololite, 55 × 60 cm
You should go, 2024, oil, pencil on sololite, 55 × 61 cm
Hotel, 2023, oil, oil pastels on sololite, 32 × 36 cm
The Head Hotel, 2024, oil , colored pencils on sololite, 50 × 41 cm
Unity, 2024, oil, crayons on sololite, 59 × 46 cm
Swimsuits, 2024, oil, acrylics, colored pencils on sololite, 60 × 40 cm
Peace undisturbed by anything, except for those biting bitches, 2023, oil and pencil on sololite, 45 × 35 cm
Queue for the tree, 2023, oil, pencil, crayons, oil pastels on sololite, 55 × 60 cm

Hotels, text piece, 2024, marker on paper, c. 100 × 270 cm
2024
At exhibition:
Festival Plácek 2024
Káznice, Bratislavská 68, Brno, Czech Republic,
9 May–11 May 2024 

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