I am not Saint Teresa, nor Blessed Ludovica, I am a contemporary Slovak painter.

The exhibition Time spiral presents the latest selection of works by Veronika Rónaiová, in which the artist returns to her own history – both personal and artistic – and transforms it into new visual constructions. Painting remains her primary medium, but this time it becomes a dialogue with a past that refuses to let go – with images of female identity, corporeality, and everyday reality captured at a time when speaking openly was not a given.

The exhibition is an intimate map of remembrance, as well as a new record of movement within the space between image, body, and history. It features a selection of both older and recent works, unified by vivid colors and distinctive painterly means. Painting here is not only a medium but also an act of continuity, memory, and self-expression.

Rónaiová employs photography as a tool of both documentation and fiction – creating collages, retouches, and staged scenes where painting intertwines with photo-modeling and experimentation. The seemingly glamourous aesthetic is subverted by critical distance and irony. On the gallery walls, a large-scale collage emerges – an original composition where fragments of paintings, drawings, and stylized photographs merge into a single visual whole with a characteristic layering of time.

In this exhibition, the past is not sentimental but an active archive from which the artist selects, overturns, and repositions questions of identity, time, and visual memory. She creates a unique space in which personal mythologies intersect with broader cultural and social meanings.