Dorota Sadovská’s painting can be understood as a practice in which iconographic forms carry historical duration and appear as contemporary manifestations in the moment of viewing. The figures’ frontal gazes establish an immediate relationship with the viewer and lead to a situation in which the image constitutes itself as a counterpart. The iconographic motifs, Adam and Eve, the Madonna, the Pietà, saints, stand within an art-historical continuity and emerge as contemporary pictorial forms in the act of seeing.