Neverending ending, in-situ instalation, at home gallery, Samoriin, Slovakia, 2025
This site-specific installation extends Mária Corejová’s ongoing practice, in which she responds to contemporary social and political issues through drawing, printmaking and intermedia overlaps. Its central motif is humanity’s ambivalent bond with nature: a poetic celebration of its power and beauty on the one hand, and a sharp reflection—and critique—of the destruction we inflict on it through our own actions on the other.
Neverending Ending develops Corejová’s long-standing reflections on corporeality, transformation and purification. In the Samorín synagogue she has created the site-specific work Glacier: more than six hundred black-and-white ink “tiles” are suspended at various heights in the nave. They fuse into a readable image only when the viewer finds the precise visual angle. Together the tiles form a three-dimensional illusion of a glacier melting into a mikveh, the ritual bath used in Judaism for ceremonial purification (traditionally entered by women after menstruation or childbirth). The synagogue thus becomes a symbolic pool— a place of silence, reflection and change. The fragility of the paper underscores the transience of glaciers in an era of climate crisis. Yet the full meaning reveals itself only from the gallery balcony — the sole vantage point from which the entire illusion can be understood, and historically the only place in the synagogue accessible to women. In this way the artist links past restrictions on women’s bodies with today’s limits imposed on the body of the Earth.
Zuzana Godálová, 2025
Drawings... and contents, zichy gallery, bratislava, 2025
Mária Corejová practices visual hacking – in the sense of the definition of the term, using familiar things in a different way and also hacking into the system. Corejová’s drawings are not just static images, but also visual questions. They speak of certainty and uncertainty, of knowledge and mistakes, of how we perceive and interpret the world. Some frightening ideas are universal, some are given by culture and time. Religions and ideologies can be inspiring, but they are dangerous when they impose a black-and-white perspective on the perception of the world. Mária Corejová encourages us with her drawings not to be afraid to interpret, to ask questions and look for answers – even where we think we already know everything.
Zuzana Duchová, 2025
