Michaela Hromadová

Michaela Hromadová (*2000) is a student at the Game Media Studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno (FaVU), where she has long been devoted to the aesthetics of RPG games and the nostalgia they evoke. In her work, she combines an interest in mundane, at times even vulgar imagery, which she transposes into painting through a distinctive realism and an emphasis on technical refinement. Hromadová depicts motifs drawn from her own immersion in a peculiar environment – an everyday yet fascinating tangle of visual stimuli. Her gaze is drawn to everything that is “fallen” – images that have slipped from the heights of supposed good taste. At the same time, Michaela effortlessly oscillates between naivism and a feeling for realism, embracing the theatricality of camp aesthetics along with the rewarding sense of outrage it brings. In these often bluntly “vulgar” images, motifs range from fantasy to banal transgression in the form of fascist latte art. In this context, “vulgar” need not be understood solely as offensive, but also as “popular” – in the sense of accessibility and openness of meaning.