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ONO TO TAO O | ESTER SABIK
ONO TO TAO O | ESTHER Eager
Event by: Mīna Art Space
Location: El Nacional - Represents Cuba | Cuban bar, Kováčska 2, Staré Mesto
Health & wellness, Exhibitions
Topics: Exhibition openings
About event
We invite you to the opening of the last exhibition from the Year of Women cycle, which we have been bringing to you since the beginning of the year. We will close the year with the exhibition Ester Sabik, ONO TO TAO O.
The curator and author of the text is Dorota Kenderová.
ONO TO TAO O – the unnamed principle that precedes all forms. In Taoist philosophy, TAO is a path, a flow, a dynamic balance between what is and what is becoming. For Ester, it is a concept of unity and harmony, but at the same time an open question: principle of being, existence, center, neutrality, whole, self-creation, cycle, naturalness. It is not something that can be grasped or defined - it is the very essence of being and transformation.
Ester Sabik works with photography as a meditative medium. She describes herself as a collector of light - and this is exactly what her photographs capture the moments between - between light and dark, between touching and separation, between the visible and the hidden. They are fragments of the continuous process of creation and decomposition, which takes place constantly, whether we observe it or not.
Sublimity and beauty - topics that the author has been working on for a long time - are not just aesthetic categories in her work. Rather, they are qualities of attention, the way he looks at the world. The exhibition works with two lines: concrete and abstract. A photographic image is a supporting layer, supplemented by a drawing and an object. The exhibition also includes the author's alchemical association cards - as a medium that resonates with the theme of sacredness and nobility, with the search for a symbol in the everyday.
The photographs were created gradually during the years 2017-2025, as a long-term meditation on light and time. The fragility of a sunset, the tenderness of a hand's touch, the silence of a landscape - these are all archetypes that we understand intuitively, across cultures and experiences. The work is autobiographical in the deepest sense – it captures the author's inner world and at the same time transcends it. The creation of a work is as mysterious a process as the creation of a life. Both are based on the same basic principle - ONO TO TAO O.
📅 14.11.2025
🕐 18:00
📍 Kováčska 11, Košice
The curator and author of the text is Dorota Kenderová.
ONO TO TAO O – the unnamed principle that precedes all forms. In Taoist philosophy, TAO is a path, a flow, a dynamic balance between what is and what is becoming. For Ester, it is a concept of unity and harmony, but at the same time an open question: principle of being, existence, center, neutrality, whole, self-creation, cycle, naturalness. It is not something that can be grasped or defined - it is the very essence of being and transformation.
Ester Sabik works with photography as a meditative medium. She describes herself as a collector of light - and this is exactly what her photographs capture the moments between - between light and dark, between touching and separation, between the visible and the hidden. They are fragments of the continuous process of creation and decomposition, which takes place constantly, whether we observe it or not.
Sublimity and beauty - topics that the author has been working on for a long time - are not just aesthetic categories in her work. Rather, they are qualities of attention, the way he looks at the world. The exhibition works with two lines: concrete and abstract. A photographic image is a supporting layer, supplemented by a drawing and an object. The exhibition also includes the author's alchemical association cards - as a medium that resonates with the theme of sacredness and nobility, with the search for a symbol in the everyday.
The photographs were created gradually during the years 2017-2025, as a long-term meditation on light and time. The fragility of a sunset, the tenderness of a hand's touch, the silence of a landscape - these are all archetypes that we understand intuitively, across cultures and experiences. The work is autobiographical in the deepest sense – it captures the author's inner world and at the same time transcends it. The creation of a work is as mysterious a process as the creation of a life. Both are based on the same basic principle - ONO TO TAO O.
📅 14.11.2025
🕐 18:00
📍 Kováčska 11, Košice