All My Bad Thoughts
Krištof Kintera frequently employs in his work striking juxtapositions and transformations of mundane objects. Derailing the clichéd associations, he imbues them with new meanings. Kintera constructs surprising and absurd situations, juggling irony and humour. In the case of All My Bad Thoughts, the artist is far from jesting, descending to the very pit of depression and morbid thought. The silhouette, reclining on its side, seems to be gradually dissolving; as if someone, deep in black thoughts, were about to disappear in a puddle of murky mire. The work’s depressive mood almost contagious, it captivates the dynamics of depression, without petrifying it. The glistening of the material used perfectly enhances the impression of the person ‘dissolving’ in sorrow; from one moment to the next, the figure losing all semblance of humanity and turning into a formless black hole.
