Sleepy Heads

The canvases serve as a sketchbook of imaginary landscapes that can be endlessly flipped through in order to explore the hidden corners of our own memory. The main subject of the series are pillows and the heads resting on them, which do not represent real people. The only thing that is real is the motif on the pillow, which copies the pattern form actual bedding. Even the size of the paintings mirrors the size of a pillow. The stylized forms of the bedding reflect memories and feelings associated with objects of sentimental value. The painting is covered in a layer of tinted linseed turpentine oil, which produces a colour filter evoking the atmosphere of a lit lamp, darkness or the sunset. In each painting, Kyjovská focuses on one colour, chosen intuitively for the work in question.

The bedding, with its characteristic patterns typical of the 1990s and the first decade of the new millennium, takes us back to a time that many of us associate with a sense of nostalgia and lightness of being, while the anonymous faces reflect the universal experiences and feelings that connect us. In this way, Kyjovská creates a space for considering the things that shape our identity and for reflecting on how we are formed by memories of the past. Each painting is an invitation to explore our own relationship to the past and its presence in our lives and memories.