Taja Spasskova (*1990) comes from Grodno, Belarus. For the last ten years she has been living and working in the Czech Republic, where she studied at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen. Winning the international competition Art Prize CMB in 2016 opened wider possibilities for her presentation. Her work consists of two seemingly distant positions, which, however, touch the same essence. On the first conceptual level, she expresses herself through photography on current social issues. In the second, intimate and completely intuitive chapter, she maps her borderline mental states and intuitive layers that stretch between the spiritual and material existence through automatic drawing. Her drawings are the deepest form of expression of the inner world and the energetic nature of existence itself.
She works with minimalist means, mostly with just an ordinary pencil, attempting to use the possibilities of the medium of drawing to depict completely abstract states. She sees drawing as a means of finding oneself, as a way of transforming one's inner energy into visual form. She creates in a state of stopping in the present, in silence, when she gathers the courage to disconnect from surface sensory perception and rational reduction, to meet her unconscious, her shadow - and connect to the core. The core, which is the subject of many of her abstract drawings, symbolizes for her the seed of possibility. It serves as a metaphor for the enormous potential hidden in a small seed - like the seed that grows into a noble tree. It signifies the possibility of personal transformation and a return to one's natural essence in harmony with one's environment. Spassková's spontaneous automatic drawing thus naturally connects in a coherent unity with her conceptual work.
