The desire for premium and luxury goods clashes with the reality experienced by Pavol Godiška, a recent art school graduate, as well as in the lives of countless other precarious individuals around the world, who face low personal economic capacity and material security. However, Godiška accepts these limitations and incorporates them into his work as the conceptual framework for his own artistic practice. What cannot be bought must be made. What cannot be afforded must be replaced with something else. Godiška replaces the perfect surfaces and precisely cut shapes of expensive, high-end materials with the most affordable ones possible. For example, in an older work, he used instant noodles as the source material for a replica of the iconic Birkin bag, the leather original of which, depending on the edition, ranges in price from tens to hundreds of thousands of euros. The result of this experiment, which in verbal description may sound like a comical DIY experiment in the vein of classics of the genre such as Jirka Babica or Láďa Hruška, is a surprisingly fragile, intimate, and sensitive work. Pavol Godiška achieves a similarly delicate result in a series of objects exhibited at Zaazrak|Dornych. This time, however, the mirror, high-heels, and corset are made of paper tissues, which grow out of ready-made household items as a representation of reality, in which the triviality of everyday home activities is replaced by uniqueness and beauty. In this peculiar still life, similar to those created by random constellations of clothes scattered around a room among furniture and other objects, themes of intimacy, ephemerality, personal identity, queerness, and subliminal criticism of capitalism are met thanks to sensitive handiwork and equally sensitively chosen materials. Thanks to its conceptual and craftsmanship quality, what began as a low-cost attempt to imitate an unattainable object ultimately describes an imaginary circle—and becomes a luxurious object of art.

— Šimon Kadlčák