The themes of identity, the expression of the plasticity of colours and shapes, and a creative approach to the originally conceived, fundamental morphological element of the sculptural body are the three principal sources that combine to create the living pulsation that characterises the work of Magdaléna Roztočilová. This exhibition offers an overview of the current state of her oeuvre. The contrast between the empty whiteness of the exhibition space and the concentrated intensity of the sculptures – consciously composed to evoke a sense of stasis – illustrates the artist’s present sculptural inspiration. After several years of producing drawings and paintings, these have now become spatial realisations, imbued with a focused creative energy and an excitement about a shift towards the essential core.

With her sculptures Hairy Liberty (2025–2026) and Anna’s Decision (2025–2026), the artist speaks to the transformations of her own inner world, now enriched by motherhood. She addresses the theme of “non-monumental” freedom, opting for a vibrant expression of colours and specific materials to investigate the possibilities of an alternative plasticity. Through a contemplative, focused, and prolonged process of pasting coloured strands of embroidery thread onto a figurative foundation, she indirectly references celebrated historical painting techniques. The tactile quality of the figures invites one to touch them directly. She opts for a hybrid form, the result of a gradual crystallisation of contentual sediments. She partially revisits an element of expression found in her early works, but now transformed, opening up to a qualitatively different space and time.

One outcome of the artist’s process of acquiring self-knowledge is the courage to incorporate the shadow aspects of love into her works, as seen in Shape of the Triffid (2026) and Red Mandala (2025). After a lengthy search for the positive dimension of things, there emerges a need to accept their hidden side in an effort to approach the truth of a holistic perspective.

The works in this exhibition are directly connected to the artist’s ongoing fascination with the abstracted portrait; the search for true individual forms through the principle of symmetry in the mandala; seeing the shared dimension of humanity. Self-Portrait (2026) adopts a unique formal expression, underpinned by a freedom of execution. Magdaléna Roztočilová repeatedly returns to the motif of the flower – now imbued with the spirit of Baroque spontaneity and liveliness, the principles of growth and mirroring, and the expression of magical power. She demonstrates the ability to convey the spirituality of being through intensive percepts of the fundamental levels of life. She experiences the non-linearity of time – historical paintings and the iconography she employs provide an inspiring space that allows glimpses into the kaleidoscopic mutuality of the micro-personal and the macro-human.

Through her self-portraits, she reveals the process of psychological internalisation. As if, having previously uncovered the individual layers of her personal psychology visible to an external gaze, she now allows their very core to become visible, enabling us to sense that evident diversity, difference, and polarity always spring anew from one and the same source.