About

Ordo Amoris (real name Ivana Suchacova) is an abstract artist based in Prague, Europe. She creates large-scale abstract paintings that stem from her exploration and experimentation with the theme of freedom, which she believes to be the essence of the primary source. Her artistic process revolves around the concept of creating without the constraints of a thinking mind, instead tapping into the boundless energy of pure consciousness to create freely and consciously. However, even when the concept dissolves into a non-concept, it still retains a semblance of conceptualization. This leads her to ponder the essence of true freedom and what it truly signifies.

She earned a Master of Philosophy of Art degree from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Not only do her constant studies seek answers, but her thoughts, which go beyond what is usually known and perceived, also influence her painting.

The act of going beyond what is usually known and thought, either in perceptions or creations, is a crucial part of Ordo Amoris's creative process. She reflects that this can be understood as an invitation to a space the mind would name “the miracles.” Devoid of all that makes us feel comfortable in the familiar, the space of freedom of great intelligence occurs where all that exists is in pure, unconditional creation. Whether creating or perceiving, by ignoring habitual responses and unconscious thoughts, Ordo Amoris opens a space for the creation of that frequency of being where there is clarity of doing in so-called non-doing (explained in the traditional Eastern philosophy of wu-wei). This provides a space into the unknown and to a priori freedom, where existence is in a meditative state of being: open, new, fresh, and alive regardless of any predominant behaviours or thoughts. “In my paintings, I study the space where questions and subsequent conversations arise between the universal energies of something considered, as an intention, the primary source of all movement in the Universe, and on the other hand, the freedom as the intelligent energy a priori inherent in all that is.” She reflects that what goes on the canvas is not a picture, an idea, or an event, but rather “what is.” “I do not tend to name my work abstract. The works created in the vast space of the unknown are not my projections nor expressions; they have nothing to do with myself or my feelings. They are not self-projected, the self is even not there. It is something beyond all experiencing as we know it.”The work, for which she gives freedom to its ethereal organic forms to arise, is not conditioned yet not automatic arising from the subconscious. Instead, it is a fluent transcendence of all that is, even itself.

Being metaphysical in scope, it can serve as a juxtaposition between what we are conditioned to know and think and what comes from a great intelligence that transcends all the known. “Is it not, then, the dissolved self in all that is, without its hints or tendencies, freely moving and creating in the gap between thoughts, the truest essence of its own?” she asks. The question is not meant to be answered. Ordo Amoris believes that "in our willingness to step into the unknown, the wisdom of uncertainty, where the freedom from our conditioning lies, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the Universe.” The paintings might then show us something beyond all our conditioning.

Her tendencies in her work are inspired by the post-war generation of American abstract expressionists, where the canvas became a vast space in which to act, rather than a space in which to reproduce, redesign, analyze, or express an object or idea, actual or imagined. She goes even further in her visual studies, transcending what the mind thinks or would like to name, pointing to the essential core of creation itself. What goes on the canvas is an unconditional creation of all the movement in the Universe—and there is great love.

Her works belong to the museum collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chiang Mai, MAIIAM, Thailand, and to private collections of various collectors around the world, including those in Prague, London, Florence, Germany, France, Spain, Slovakia, Africa, the USA, Singapore, Thailand, Java, and Bali.

She currently lives and works between Prague, with her atelier in the enchanting Malá Strana, and Asia, mainly on the mystical island of Bali, which has become another home for her. Alongside painting, she observes the world with an old Flexaret twin-lens film camera.