The Deák Erika Gallery is delighted to present the first solo exhibition at the gallery by London-based Hungarian artist Anna Pakosz, titled Long takes.

Anna Pakosz’s creative process is intuitive and deeply personal; her canvases are dominated by abstract, dynamic gestures and brushstrokes. Her paintings are coordinated imprints of emotions and movement, where every line, gesture, and color possesses its own energy and meaning. Her works are defined by the power of presence and by textures oscillating between movement and material.

Her newest series presented at the gallery is enriched by personal memories that currently define her life, by calligraphic elements, and by references reminiscent of graffiti. Pakosz does not depict but narrates, leaving the endings of her stories to the viewer’s imagination. Much like the long takes of French cinema, her paintings invite attentive contemplation.

Each of Pakosz’s canvases is a physical imprint of a personal experience—an embodiment of breath, rhythm, impression, and impulse in visual form. In her paintings, the material itself often becomes the storyteller, transforming fragments, conscious and unconscious moments alike into surface, form, and color. Thus unfolds a narrative that resists linearity. The act of painting is tangible, allowing the viewer to experience a state that is both personal and universal.

Pakosz knows and exploits the nature of her materials, allowing their alchemy to take effect—the paint flows, the fabric absorbs it, sometimes rejects it, rust leaves its mark. While these material transformations are often slow and time-consuming, her gestures are sudden and immediate. Her painterly approach demands full physical engagement, creating a discursive tension between the slow and the fast, the material and the pictorial, the instinctive and the experimental. Every layer contains both intention and potentiality. This process manifests a unique creative practice, in which control and release, focused attention and freedom intertwine.