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Kristina Mésároš belongs to a generation of young artists who created the look of current Slovak painting in the last decade. The sources of the first author's motivations to paint were from the outset internal, personal, based on her own experience and innate need to express them in painting. The author often finds inspiration and specific fragments of her paintings in exotic locations of distant lands, borrows them from historical photographs, or searches for them with a camera in the banalities of the outside world – all according to her current creation cycles and related areas of interest. Paintings of Kristina Mésároš are mainly based on stories. In her work, she is often exploring the idea of finding inner freedom and the meaning of life through poetic fantasy scenes in which an important role is played by the natural environment and in it a hidden hint of previous or future events. In her painting, she inserts stories of specific places that are normally unknown or only work in relation to a personal memory or fact taken out of its original context. Her own impressions and memories inspire her to poetry saturated scenes, in which an important role is played by the interaction of the environment with the human figure. The country of motifs is always changing, but the sense of imaginative narrative remains present throughout her work. Paintings where the natural background of the scene becomes a self-supporting element are an expression of a distinctive, enthusiastic passion for the possibilities of painting techniques (flushing, snorting, wash). Paintings of Kristina Mésároš consist of a combination of several approaches linking personal authenticity, at times certain naivety of ideas and artistic sensitivity and innovation in the creation process. She is inviting us to unleash those places in your mind that can perceive beauty of unnoticed details, decrypt metaphorical language and treasure short, fast-fleeting moments. By: Diana Majdakova