What if the future feels dangerous and tender at the same time? We sit with visual artist Beáta Hechtová to wander through her post‑collapse worlds, where faceless figures grow thorns, bodies melt beyond gender, and cultures are rebuilt through ritual and care. These scenes are not about escape; they are about returning to empathy, crafting belief systems from scraps, and finding a way to belong amid uncertainty.

Beáta introduces the idea of “futuristic folklore,” a living myth that fuses sacred plants, drifting liquid energies, and ceremonies formed after a fall. The last orchid sealed under glass becomes a relic worth protecting; bubbles hover like new ideologies or digital spirits; and an unknown light source glows just out of reach, pulling characters forward. Her colours carry the rainforest’s heat and saturation while her surfaces slip toward a digital smoothness, echoing VR’s cinematic skies and the soft shimmer of post‑internet light. The effect is immersive: paintings that feel screen‑born and sculptures that invite touch, from fluffy tentacles to carnivorous forms lit from within.

We explore how hope works as a practice rather than a promise. Nature pushes back, technology liquefies into belief, and desire refuses to die. Beáta traces influences from neo‑surrealism to contemporary installation, shares plans for whale‑bone scale and soundscapes, and reflects on why she might choose to live inside the worlds she paints. The result is a conversation about adaptation, community, and the art of holding beauty and threat in the same frame.

If you’re drawn to contemporary art, neo‑surrealism, speculative futures, and the meeting point of ecology and technology, this journey will stay with you. Listen, subscribe, and leave a review to tell us: which part of humanity would you carry into a new world?