Kanrec Sakul’s new exhibition "Sukera Fumo" (Sugar Smoke), presents another chapter in his exploration of illusory spaces and material transformations. This time, the central theme is smoke - an unstable, intangible element symbolizing movement, transformation, and the blurring of boundaries between reality and illusion. Sakul builds on his previous exhibition project "Velura Rando" (November 2024, VUNU Bratislava), but abandons the already subdued color palette in favor of a completely monochromatic spectrum. A surprising element is the previously pristine painted surface, which now appears in a new "soiled" tone.

In these new works, Kanrec Sakul experiments with layering textures that evoke feelings of aging, decline, or degradation. The surfaces of the paintings display signs of erosion, creating the impression of time captured in motion. The texture and surface degradation reveal layers of memory, history, and vulnerability. Sakul once again creates spaces that exist between worlds – between the concrete and the vague, the tangible and the ephemeral. The motif of smoke also acts as a metaphor for the dissolution of the boundaries of identity, space, and time. In some paintings, indeterminate amorphous forms can be discerned, potentially evoking animal or creature-like presences. However, these beings have no clear contours and instead become ghosts in the mist, hinting at Sakul’s fascination with blurring the lines between the known and the unknown. In line of French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and his concepts of “multiple identities” and “deterritorialization,” Sakul’s paintings become maps for uncertain territories, where fixed boundaries are dissolved and replaced by fleeting transitions. Here, smoke represents not just a physical phenomenon but also a symbol of mental and emotional movement, a continuous reshaping of identities and memories that resists definitive conclusions.

Sukera Fumo opens the door to the artist’s inner worlds, an unstable and unpredictable realms. Yet it is within this very instability that new perspectives on subjective reality take shape.

The realization of works for the exhibition was supported by the Slovak Art Council in the form of a scholarship