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User ID:	1248
First Name:	Csilla
Last Name:	Polakova
Country:	Slovakia
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Biography
Date / place of birth:	May 27, 19	Želiezovce
Lives and works in:	Bratislava
Student at	Vysoká škola výtvarných umení v Bratislave (Academy of fine arts and design), Bratislava
Student since	2004
Exhibitions	Made-to-measure/ FruFru Gallery, Bratislava,2010,with Vilo Slaminka Bloggers /2009, Plavecky Stvrtok/ Christmas Bestseller /2009, Bratislava/ 3x painting /2007, Levice,with Andrea Bartosova&Katarina Balazova/ What does not connect us, makes us stronger /2007, Bratislava/ Meeting Point /2006, Bratislava/
Further studies and awards:	Supplementary tutorial study /pedagogies for art teacher/
I mainly work in this medium:	Mixed Media

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Title:	Bloggers
Year:	2010
Technique:	acrylic on canvas
Size:	382 x 750 cm
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Short description of your work:	The name of the work refers to online diaries where adolescent girls discuss the question of a weight loss,give advices and criticise each other.This virtual world is anonymous and even the closest remain unaware.The girls upload pictures of themselves, but one will never see their faces,therefore these paintings are only portraits of bodies,visions of desire for perfection.
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Title:	Love Confession
Year:	2009
Technique:	sublimation printing on textile
Size:	a series of twenty objects of
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Short description of your work:	Authentic text messages with a romantic, erotic or distinctively sexual content have been addressed to women of different ages /I got the texts from them/. The senders are men who have decided to express their most intimate thoughts in a form which is time-saving, easily accessible and mostly shortened because of a limited number of characters in one SMS.
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Title:	Purification
Year:	2008
Technique:	Polyester bathroom curtains, silk screen printing, embroidery
Size:	2 objects of size 200 x 200 cm
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Short description of your work:	Polyester bathroom curtains, silk screen printing, embroidery
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Artist Statement:	In my works I utilise the tactics of voyeuristic following of private lives of others, primarily through media such as mobile phone or the Internet. In the case of the Internet blogs, I am fascinated by a tension between media which is widely available and a measure of its success which is traffic, and the actual content that is so personal that it usually remains undercover well before the closest. Idiom and materials are chosen according to the topic. I use various types of printing on the soft synthetic material; this provides a wide range of formal expression, from the simplicity and purity to the romantic, decorative form on the edge of kitsch. For the latter project, I chose painting language, and created an installation of images painted in acrylic on canvas. I exploit the opportunities offered by this technique: from the fine, 'aquarelle' layers to the continuous, homogeneous, shiny surfaces. My latest project ‘Blogerky’ remains open; each room offers a new way of in
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