Denisa Ponomarevová

Czech Republic °1998
affiliation: FFA BUT
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Denisa Ponomarevová explores hypothetical and personal symbolism in digital space and online communication. Her work engages with the system of emoticons and simplified visual forms or symbols found in the virtual environment. She deconstructs their meaning through drawings and material (textile) elements, which are often part of a larger whole or site-specific installations, and should be understood as such. Denisa’s work responds organically to the ambivalence, reactivity, apparent happiness, excess, toxicity, and elusiveness of not only virtual emotions and affects but also to the ways the digital age shapes our relationship to ourselves and others.

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  • Visual Overeating: Pop Culture and the Chronically Online (2025) author(s): Denisa Ponomarevová, Daniela Ponomarevová published in: FFA BUT – Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology
    This exposition examines the intersection of drawing, installation, and handmade objects informed by popular culture, spectacle, and visual symbolism. Central to the practice is the duality between physical materiality and virtual environments, a framework through which fictional realities are constructed and analyzed—often reflecting states of exhaustion, overload, and alienation characteristic of hyperactive contemporary culture. The use of low-budget materials and do-it-yourself methods introduces a deliberate tension between meticulous craftsmanship and intentional “amateurism,” while simultaneously subverting the capitalist logics of mass culture through the reuse and recontextualization of its visual language. Connecting introspective and social dimensions, the exposition offers not only an aesthetic experience but also a critical lens on everyday consumer routines, media-shaped reality, and processes of personal self-reflection.
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