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Time, its passing, the past — these would seem the natural themes, for Táňa Kuzmová’s combined textile works all but insist we speak of them. Through period photographs they summon bygone days, absent people, and transformed places. They point, they remind, they preserve.And yet, I find myself reluctant to speak of time in its chronological sense. […]

IIt seems to me that a kind of magical impulse brings to life the opportunity to write something really appropriate about a contemporary’s work of art. I have had certain experiences, and they have thrown before my eyes – for a very specific time, actually – a quite specific way of thinking. Let’s say that it is a feeling of personification

Programme work with a textile medium is relatively unique in the context of contemporary art in Slovakia but also in the world. Only a few authors (in our region: Vlasta Žáková, Ľuba Sajkalová, Zuzana Rudavská) deliberately rejected the wide range of traditional and new media and found their anchor in textiles. One of them is

When Christmas is Closer than the Bones of Smoked HerringWhat is usually emphasized with Táňa Kuzmová is her quiet, bashful personality. We are all the more surprised by her drawings, where hidden, apparently un-feminine emotions force their way to the surface. Her drawings, made with strongly gestural strokes of black chalk or ink and subtle

After 2000, she paused for a certain period of time (for maternity leave) then returned to her own creation at the same time she joined the Art School at Devínska Nová Ves. Although she has continued with her ceramic work, and her work with textiles (which was present before 2000) has come to the foreground,

She speaks silently, focused. Her gestures are quieted down, she moves without distraction. She spreads her artwork on the ground, on the table, on the bed, leaning them against the walls. The room’s space is filled with drawings, cartons, paper works on the paper. Papers are different formats and tones. From white, through grey, to

About Táňa’s sewing embroidery There are ways to use a thread in a way it has not always been used, and yet, it still can be in the right place. This is, what Táňa does with them, with the threads. It is not female handicrafts that she does. She has swapped a pencil for a