Born in 1987 in Bratislava, Slovakia, Valik currently lives and works in London.
Valik approaches and considers his paintings as fluid and psychological territories that move between perceptual ambiguities, emotions, and evocations of otherness. Held in a strange balance and uncertain of fixed meanings, these semi-open ecosystems respond to a world in flux, filled with contradictions, in an effort to reach from the subjective towards something universal.
Washes of color, impulsive brushstrokes, and slowly traced shapes depict and conceal at the same time. Valik is interested in how the external space affects the internal one, painting from where that intersection occurs. Reliant on intuition, spontaneity, and experimentation—equally on chance and control—the dialogue between process and resulting image shifts back and forth from accidental marks to conjured spaces. Floating free-form or morphing into shapes that language can’t fully tackle, his work aims to be simultaneously familiar and strange, illogical or even sublime, refracted through their internal logic and coded in fragments, layers, and shapes.
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