Eva Droppova Slovak nationality Born in Bratislava in 1936

Born in Slovakia from a German-Hungarian descent, Eva Droppova goes to an engineering high school before working as a designer in an engineering institute.

In 1991, her son, victim of a major accident, undergoes surgery but remains neurologically impaired. Eva is emotionally scarred by this tragedy that will change her life. "I have asked God why he punished my child. It was the first time I spoke to God. At that moment, something hit the room, like an explosion of energy. I do not know if the shock was within me or around me. Later, as I was crying, everything started burning up in me, my hand started moving, uncontrolled, on its own, with no intention on my part. My first pictures were born."

Most of her drawings are accompanied by specific questions to the spirits. In her work, which in some way could resemble the one of Emmanuel "le Calligraphe", Eva Droppova has recreated a vocabulary and a grammar of her own. These are no longer our words but a new code based on her mythology, a symbol system emanating from the forces that move her. We can say that her work is unlike anybody else's, and even though Eva Droppova is an educated woman, her creative world is free from any influences besides the one of the spirits that haunt her. (The quotations come from an interview that Eva Droppova had with Bruno Decharme when he visited her in Bratislava in May 1999.)

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