Ester Knapová: Winter Apples

Accompanying catalogue to the exhibition of the young painter Ester Knapová, whose paintings spread a kind of dreamy mood at first sight. They draw us into various remote times and present us with familiar situations that remind us of something. The author opens up the half-forgotten world of her own past, but it is not strictly her world. Rather, it is a found form of sharing and awakens the viewer from passivity. She makes us remember things and moments that were somehow important for the present, even if it didn't seem so "then". A network of involuntary observations, banal objects, corners, hiding places, a network of abandoned places in which Morandian silence speaks, this is where Ester Knapová returns to recall long-obscured connections. Those contexts that shed a different light on the lived time, and that magically transform the seemingly insignificant into what suddenly appears as crucial and essential in the eyes of today. It is the discovery of something lost, but which at least exists in memory and recollection, and which is therefore accessible in certain ways.