Lucia Tkáčová: There’s No One to Live My Life

The artist Lucie Tkáčová is known as an artist making provocative, engaged and highly suggestive works, which she usually creates in collaboration with other artists. In G99, however, the show will be her own and, above all, for herself.

As a child, she grew up in a family affected by alcoholism and still deals with various consequences, including so-called codependency. This condition forces a codependent person to completely push aside her own needs for the needs of others, which she in turn deals with so intensely that there is de facto no one available to live her own life.

The exhibition is designed on the basis of a family constellation – originally a dramatherapeutic method that allows to see and feel the hidden connections and mechanisms between the members of a certain group. We are invited into the rawly grasped recesses of the inner reflection of her family situation, to feel for a moment as guests the unfathomable drama of the taboo consequences of a substance that has been proudly normalized in this culture.

The exhibition was supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council.

The exhibition is part of the Your Addiction Is The Message series, which explores the theme of addiction and escape strategies in the context of art. By reinterpreting the famous phrase of media theorist Marshall McLuhan, “The medium is the message”, we propose to approach addictions as a source of embedded information that is perhaps essential to processes of world change in polycrisis.