munio - demolitio

The wall in Lili's painting of Country initially had a strong negative connotation. It was a symbol of oppression and anxiety. As the painter developed and evolved, this wall also gradually transcended its initial meaning. Inspired by her formative travel experiences, the notion of the wall was layered with additional meanings and cultural layers. They became icons, bearers of ancient signs, and then ruined walls of vanished cities, carrying with them the past and its events and layers. This layered structure, like time, can also be understood as a succession of the present. It contains not only the individual psyche, but also myths, and thus the collective human unconscious, dreams, signs, their reinterpretation and revival, as well as other superimposed meanings. The culmination of this idea is most noticeable in Country Lili's 'labyrinth' series, which can be conceived as a huge wall, a mural, sometimes broken through, waiting to be entered and to discover what lies behind the wall.