“Through her works, Dominika Trapp mobilizes the cultural history of water and

connects it to primary existential experiences with the utmost naturalness: these

works traverse the path from the physiology of water to the physiognomy of water.

The sources that represent the origin of water cannot be considered true origins:

they are not the birthplace of water but merely the place of change in the medium.

The origin cannot be the origin of the material; at most, the origin of form.

However, since we are dealing with the formless par excellence, we can only

glimpse the origin as a momentary stage of appearance: jugs, holes, springs,

cavities, and tunnels – the navel of the world. Through a broad horizon that

stretches from past to future, the works on display here go beyond their sensory

experience. Like water, they are at once self-controlling and obedient. They appear

remarkably ‘natural’ while simultaneously exuding a disturbing

foreignness – something we still expect from art but increasingly rarely encounter.”

/Imre Bartók, writer/