Virtual exhibition · One painting · Online, 2026
Lights off
Some paintings are best seen in the dark. You get a flashlight: move it across the canvas and see what you find. When you are done, turn on the lights.
The painting goes back to a time when ending a pregnancy meant death by hanging, for any reason at all, even when a woman miscarried against her will. Her own family had to inform on her, because such a sinner was not fit to walk this vale of tears, and people kept a close eye on women who had been seen pregnant and then strangely had no child. A balloon bursts easily. So women turned to the devil, who, as Słowak tells it, made the better guardian: he drove off the cruel ones with his great tail and even wept tears of blood.
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