
Objects in the Mirror May Be Closer
Than They Appear
Objects in the Mirror May
Be Closer Than They Appear
solo show kkc ARTA, Piešťany/SK, 2025
solo show kkc ARTA, Piešťany/SK, 2025

Objects in the Mirror
May Be Closer
Than They Appear
solo show kkc ARTA, Piešťany/SK, 2025
“The title of the exhibition is not merely a poetic gesture, but a conceptual metaphor that becomes a key to reading Ráchel Jutka’s work. Inspired by the mandatory warning found on car side mirrors and philosophically reinterpreted by Jean Baudrillard, it refers to the distorted perception of reality, to the illusion of distance or safety that an image can convey. In the context of the exhibition, this phrase becomes a warning: what appears abstract, distant, or elusive may, in fact, be intimate, physical, and emotionally charged. The title thus creates a dialogue not only with the images and objects on display but also with their "invisible" contents, while at the same time ironically undermining Greenberg’s notion of the image as clearly readable. The exhibition raises the question of how far an image can serve as a bearer of relationships, not just representation, and how the tension between image and object can be used as a form of visual inquiry.” (...) curator Štefánia Ďuricová, M.A.
“The title of the exhibition is not merely a poetic gesture, but a conceptual metaphor that becomes a key to reading Ráchel Jutka’s work. Inspired by the mandatory warning found on car side mirrors and philosophically reinterpreted by Jean Baudrillard, it refers to the distorted perception of reality, to the illusion of distance or safety that an image can convey. In the context of the exhibition, this phrase becomes a warning: what appears abstract, distant, or elusive may, in fact, be intimate, physical, and emotionally charged. The title thus creates a dialogue not only with the images and objects on display but also with their "invisible" contents, while at the same time ironically undermining Greenberg’s notion of the image as clearly readable. The exhibition raises the question of how far an image can serve as a bearer of relationships, not just representation, and how the tension between image and object can be used as a form of visual inquiry.” (...) curator Štefánia Ďuricová, M.A.
“The title of the exhibition is not merely a poetic gesture, but a conceptual metaphor that becomes a key to reading Ráchel Jutka’s work. Inspired by the mandatory warning found on car side mirrors and philosophically reinterpreted by Jean Baudrillard, it refers to the distorted perception of reality, to the illusion of distance or safety that an image can convey. In the context of the exhibition, this phrase becomes a warning: what appears abstract, distant, or elusive may, in fact, be intimate, physical, and emotionally charged.
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"Sand with Palm in Green" - acrylics, toned cyanotype on canvas
"Sand with Palm in Green" - acrylics, toned cyanotype on canvas
"Phone Grid" - acrylics on canvas
"Zillertal/Appetiser" - toned cyanotype, acrylics on canvas
"Cabinets I & II" - acrylics, cyanotype on canvas,
recycled wooden furniture, photography on steel
"Green Pastures" - acrylics, cyanotype, oil stick on canvas
“The artist works with mixed media on canvas, incorporating the historical photographic technique of cyanotype, through which she transfers photographs in portrait format, a format familiar from contemporary digital environments, directly onto canvas. This act connects an archaic medium with a digital visual language, opening up space for reflection. The portrait, typically a tool of self-representation in the digital sphere, is transformed in her practice into a material, slow, and chemical image, paradoxically closer and more truthful than the one we consume daily through screens.” curator Štefánia Ďuricová, M.A.




"Phone Grid" - acrylics on canvas

"Zillertal/Appetiser" - toned cyanotype, acrylics on canvas



"Cabinets I & II" - acrylics, cyanotype on canvas, recycled wooden furniture, photography on steel


"Green Pastures" - acrylics, cyanotype, oil stick on canvas


“The artist works with mixed media on canvas, incorporating the historical photographic technique of cyanotype, through which she transfers photographs
in portrait format, a format familiar from contemporary digital environments, directly onto canvas. This act connects an archaic medium with a digital visual language, opening up space for reflection. The portrait, typically a tool of self-representation
in the digital sphere, is transformed in her practice into a material, slow, and chemical image, paradoxically closer and more truthful than the one we consume daily through screens.” curator Štefánia Ďuricová, M.A.
“The artist works with mixed media on canvas, incorporating the historical photographic technique of cyanotype, through which she transfers photographs in portrait format, a format familiar from contemporary digital environments, directly onto canvas. This act connects an archaic medium with a digital visual language, opening up space for reflection. The portrait, typically a tool of self-representation in the digital sphere, is transformed in her practice into a material, slow, and chemical image, paradoxically closer and more truthful than the one we consume daily through screens.” curator Štefánia Ďuricová, M.A.






