ARTWORK

SYNECDOCHICAL QUASI-REALISM

SELECTED ARTWORKS

The conceptual foundation of my practice is rooted in an authorial principle I define as synecdochical quasi-realism pars pro toto, in which a fragment, detail, psychological situation, or distorted motif functions as a representative of a broader existential, social, or cultural whole. I do not perceive reality as an objectively graspable structure, but rather as a subjectively constructed space shaped by memory, emotion, trauma, cultural experience, and the mechanisms of human perception.

My work operates at the intersection of figurative painting, psychological introspection, and material experimentation. Through processes of distortion, fragmentation, symbolic reference, and physical intervention into the image surface, I construct visual situations oscillating between personal experience, archetypal memory, and existential tension. Materiality, surface, and the physical structure of the work function not merely as formal elements, but as active carriers of emotional and conceptual meaning.

My practice continuously investigates themes of identity, childhood, inner isolation, moral constructions, collective memory, and the instability of perception. The works resist narrative closure and fixed interpretation; instead, they function as open psychological structures in which introspective experience intersects with broader cultural and social contexts.

Selected Artworks presents a curated selection from the ongoing series Childhood Series, Virtues and Vices, Portraits, Space and Matter, Dark Light Series, and other long-term projects, which together form an interconnected body of work reflecting on the relationship between human psychology, memory, corporeality, and the contemporary experience of reality.

decay

(space and matter series)

100/160 cm

acrylic, oil and mixed media on canvas, 2025

morana

(sapce and matter series)

60/140 cm

acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 2025

leaving

(dark light series)

70/140 cm

oil on canvas, 2024

cracks

(dark light series)

50/60 cm

oil on canvas, 2023

hope

(childhood cycle)

85/115 cm

oil on wood, 2021

melancholy III.

(dark light series)

diameter 80 cm
oil on canvas, 2025

memories

(dark light series)

40/70/20 cm

oil and mixed media on sololite, framed, 2025

vigiliae

(dark light series)

40/60 cm

oil on canvas, 2024

nightmare

(childhood cycle)

67/157 cm

oil on sololite, 2024

oligarchy

(virtues & vices series)

50/70 cm

oil on canvas, 2021

old man and the hummingbird

(dark light series)

100/70 cm

oil on sololite, 2025

 desire

(virtues & vices series)

120/140 cm

oil on canvas, 2023

portrait of vladimír merta

(portraits)

70/70 cm

oil on canvas, 2022

inter arma (musae)

(virtues & vices series)

120/80 cm

oil on sololite, 2022

 i am not here

(dark light series)

70/90 cm

oil on canvas, 2024

astrologer

(virtues & vices series)

50/70 cm

oil on canvas, 2022

© Blanka Křemenová 2026

ARTWORK

SYNECDOCHICAL QUASI-REALISM

SELECTED ARTWORKS

The conceptual foundation of my practice is rooted in an authorial principle I define as synecdochical quasi-realism pars pro toto, in which a fragment, detail, psychological situation, or distorted motif functions as a representative of a broader existential, social, or cultural whole. I do not perceive reality as an objectively graspable structure, but rather as a subjectively constructed space shaped by memory, emotion, trauma, cultural experience, and the mechanisms of human perception.

My work operates at the intersection of figurative painting, psychological introspection, and material experimentation. Through processes of distortion, fragmentation, symbolic reference, and physical intervention into the image surface, I construct visual situations oscillating between personal experience, archetypal memory, and existential tension. Materiality, surface, and the physical structure of the work function not merely as formal elements, but as active carriers of emotional and conceptual meaning.

My practice continuously investigates themes of identity, childhood, inner isolation, moral constructions, collective memory, and the instability of perception. The works resist narrative closure and fixed interpretation; instead, they function as open psychological structures in which introspective experience intersects with broader cultural and social contexts.

Selected Artworks presents a curated selection from the ongoing series Childhood Series, Virtues and Vices, Portraits, Space and Matter, Dark Light Series, and other long-term projects, which together form an interconnected body of work reflecting on the relationship between human psychology, memory, corporeality, and the contemporary experience of reality.

decay

(space and matter series)

100/160

acrylic, oil and mixed media on canvas, 2025

memories

(dark light series)

40/70/20 cm

oil and mixed media on sololite, framed, 2025

old man and the hummingbird

(dark light series)

100/70 cm

oil on sololite, 2025

morana

(space and matter series)

60/140 cm

acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 2025

melancholy III

(dark light series)

diameter 80 cm
oil on canvas, 2025

i am not here

(dark light series)

70/90 cm

oil on canvas, 2024

leaving

(dark light series)

70/140 cm

oil on canvas, 2024

vigiliae

(dark light series)

40/60 cm

oil on canvas, 2024

cracs

(dark light series)

50/60 cm

oil on canvas, 2023

 desire

(virtues & vices series)

120/140 cm

oil on canvas, 2023

nightmare

(childhood cycle)

67/157 cm

oil on sololite, 2024

portrait of vladimír merta

(portraits)

70/70 cm

oil on canvas, 2022

astrologer

(virtues & vices series)

50/70 cm

oil on canvas, 2022

inter arma (musae)

(virtues & vices series)

120/80 cm

oil on sololite, 2022

hope

(childhood cycle)

85/115 cm

oil on wood, 2021

oligarchy

(virtues & vices series)

50/70 cm

oil on canvas, 2021

© Blanka Křemenová 2026

ARTWORK

SYNECDOCHIAL QUASI-REALISM

SELECTED ARTWORKS

The conceptual foundation of my practice is rooted in an authorial principle I define as synecdochical quasi-realism pars pro toto, in which a fragment, detail, psychological situation, or distorted motif functions as a representative of a broader existential, social, or cultural whole. I do not perceive reality as an objectively graspable structure, but rather as a subjectively constructed space shaped by memory, emotion, trauma, cultural experience, and the mechanisms of human perception.

My work operates at the intersection of figurative painting, psychological introspection, and material experimentation. Through processes of distortion, fragmentation, symbolic reference, and physical intervention into the image surface, I construct visual situations oscillating between personal experience, archetypal memory, and existential tension. Materiality, surface, and the physical structure of the work function not merely as formal elements, but as active carriers of emotional and conceptual meaning.

My practice continuously investigates themes of identity, childhood, inner isolation, moral constructions, collective memory, and the instability of perception. The works resist narrative closure and fixed interpretation; instead, they function as open psychological structures in which introspective experience intersects with broader cultural and social contexts.

Selected Artworks presents a curated selection from the ongoing series Childhood Series, Virtues and Vices, Portraits, Space and Matter, Dark Light Series, and other long-term projects, which together form an interconnected body of work reflecting on the relationship between human psychology, memory, corporeality, and the contemporary experience of reality.

decay

(space and matter series)

100/160 cm
acrylic, oil and mixed media on canvas, 2025

morana

(space and matter series)

60/140 cm

acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 2025

vigiliae

(dark light series)

40/60 cm

oil on canvas, 2024

hope

(childhood cycle)

85/115 cm

oil on wood, 2021

old man and the hummingbird

(dark light series)

100/70 cm

oil on sololite, 2025

melancholy III.

(dark light series)

diameter 80 cm

oil on canvas, 2025

i am not here

(dark light series)

70/90 cm

oil on canvas, 2024

leaving

(dark light series)

70/140 cm

oil on canvas, 2024

nightmare

(childhood cycle)

67/157 cm

oil on sololite, 2024

oligarchy

(virtues & vices series)

50/70 cm

oil on canvas, 2021

memories

(dark light series)

40/70/20 cm

oil and mixed media on sololite, framed, 2025

 desire

(virtues & vices series)

120/140 cm

oil on canvas, 2023

portrait of vladimír merta

(portraits)

70/70 cm

oil on canvas, 2022

inter arma (musae)

(virtues & vices series)

120/80

olej na sololitu, 2022

astrologer

(virtues & vices series)

50/70 cm

oil on canvas, 2022

trhliny

(dark light series)

50/60 cm

oil on canvas, 2023

© Blanka Křemenová 2026