Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkáčová

About Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkáčová

Anetta Mona Chişa (Romania) and Lucia Tkáčová (Slovakia) have been working together since 2000. They both graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava and currently live and work in Prague.

Anetta Mona Chişa (Romania) and Lucia Tkáčová (Slovakia) have been working together since 2000. They both graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava and currently live and work in Prague. Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkáčová represent Romania at this year’s Venice Biennale. „[...] we see our collaboration as a socratic adventure and we started to consider it as a foetus of a possible amazonian clan. [...] We see it as a method how to overcome egocentrism, competition and emulation. The aspect of reflection (self-reflection) crops up as continuous questioning and mirroring ourselves in the other one. During the creative process we truly dissolve into each other, beyond the boundaries of the ego, otherness and own existence and re-create ourselves as a temporary “we” without any reserves. It is very liberating, provoking and exciting at the same time. Usually a female duo is perceived as the incarnation of standard erotic male phantasies. Yet precisely because we are a female duo, we generate the cockiness and strength to wrestle with the sublimations of these phantasies. Forming and performing a female duo is a way to outdare the scripts inflicted on women by the society as well as a way to dismantle the self-imposed (internalized) mechanisms of male domination that women carry out." (Excerpts from “From Flirtation through Fatal Attraction to Fixation – Balancing out the Scales of Power”, Raluca Voinea in conversation with Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkáčová.)

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