FUGAZI

Ester Parasková – FUGAZI Fragmented Disney figures appear as anonymized archetypes: incomplete, deformed, yet instantly recognizable through bodily signatures embedded deep within collective visual memory. Their repeated precision recalls motion studies and early modern attempts to mechanize movement—moments when motion itself carried the promise of revolt. For Parasková, these figures become markers of labor, echoing both the repetitive work of Disney animators and her own experience in factory production. Deformation, fragmentation, and repetition function not as pure analysis, but as a dialectical process in which the breakdown of mechanical systems simultaneously constructs them. Situated between work and gesture, appropriation and authenticity, Parasková’s paintings embrace repetition while resisting its logic. Traces of physical confrontation—dirt, smudges, footprints—remain visible, grounding the images in bodily presence. FUGAZI—fake, feigned, illusory—names this tension directly: the artist mechanically reproduces what is already endlessly reproduced, yet through distortion and layering transforms it into a charged, combative visual language. The result is painting as struggle—urgent, physical, and unresolved