About

Born 1993 in Brno, Czech Republic.
Lives and works in Prague and Athens.

Ester Parasková (b. 1993, Brno) lives and works in Prague and Athens.

Her practice approaches painting and drawing as forms of labor—repetitive, time-based, and physically demanding. Working through controlled systems and mechanical repetition, she replaces expressive gesture with process, fatigue, and accumulation.

While drawing often follows a predetermined structure, abstract fields of color function as a space of speed, temporal freedom, and restrained expression. Traces of movement, dirty shoes, rapid marks, and unstable handwriting remain visible, foregrounding the conditions of production and bodily presence.

Fragments of appropriated cartoon imagery and textual slogans are detached from their original narratives and reinserted as unstable signs. Her visual assemblages oscillate between attraction and disturbance, charm and violence, irony and gravity.

Through deliberate composition, contrast, and chromatic tension, Parasková stabilizes this apparent disorder while exposing the ideological mechanisms of consumerism, power, and the art system itself. The image ultimately becomes secondary to the labor, time, and human effort embedded within its making.