Veronika Pausova: Fast Moving Sun

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Veronika Pausova, “Scent Charm,” 2018

oil on canvas, 18” x 15” (courtesy the artist and Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal)

Veronika Pausova: Fast Moving Sun

Painter Veronika Pausova draws on figurative imagery to tell diagrammatic short stories – hands grasping, noses sniffing, fruit flies teeming – that mine the territory between animation and stasis. These figurations form a cast of recurrent characters that evolve within and between compositions with a logic unique to the artist. Spiders with pearl-like bodies appear to be dancers in one painting, earrings in another. In Flaneuse, these spider legs devolve into a frieze of walking boots, each of which is punctuated with a single, photo-realistic big toe. A nail-bitten finger parts an unseen curtain, or emerges from a garden hose. Sunburnt legs pace across a painting, or rest against the edges of the canvas beneath a gushing shower head. The elements of Pausova’s visual vocabulary are in perpetual transformation, existing across a continuum of possible states, places, and times.

Veronika Pausova

Veronika Pausova was born in Prague, Czech Republic and lives and works in Toronto. She received her BFA from Glasgow School of Art in 2009 and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Playing the Organs, Sunday Painter, London (2021); A to C, Simone Subal, New York (2019); Busy Bodies at Parisian Laundry, Montreal (2018); drawing the curtain, Hunt Kastner, Prague (2018); Age me a Heavy Twig, Franz Kaka, Toronto (2018); Forest House at Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (2017); and Chests in the Current at Motel Gallery, New York (2016). Select group shows include My Cartography, The Erling Kagge Collection, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid (2020); If I have a body, Remai Modern (2019); On Anxiety, Cleve Carney Gallery, Chicago (2018); An Assembly of Shapes, Oakville Galleries (2018); Line and Verse, Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm (2018); RBC Canadian Painting Competition 2017, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2017).

February 24th, 2022 at 6-7pm In-person: Curatorial Tour with Elizabeth Diggon

Join Curator Elizabeth Diggon for a tour of Esker Foundation’s current exhibitions, Farah Al Qasimi: Letters for Occasions, Michelle Bui: Naked Excess, and Veronika Pausova: Fast Moving Sun.

Registration essential. Opens 11 February, 11am.

In-person with limited capacity.