Ágnes Vokatá

(b. 1998, Prague, Czech Republic)

Don’t Forget to Play, 2024
Acrylic on canvas, mixed media

Ágnes Vokatá’s work primarily deals with the themes of sharing, family relationships and heritage. For the last few years, her focus has been on our childhood and how our history and memory influence us.

By transferring memories into paintings through analogue photography, gravure, and screen printing, Vokatá explores an artistic practice that finds its source in joy, imagination and spontaneity. The installation Don’t Forget to Play is a free combination of these techniques.

Her main principle is the banal but profound idea that it is possible to grow up but still maintain the childlike joy of life. How do we experience this joy? How do we make life more spontaneous and truer to ourselves? Can we return to childhood with our adult life experiences?

Interview with Ágnes Vokatá