Going through a transformation

Dole gallery, Fiducia, Ostrava
curator Markéta Vlčková
26 August 20248 October 2024

Human existence is bound up with the presence of other beings, we learn the ability to sustain ourselves in the world and refine our sensory organs for the perception of reality. Understanding something that seems foreign, ugly, familiar to us and that mirrors our identity. We are changing every moment and we are also changing our surroundings. It is important not to lose sight of the importance of our lives and the impact of the individual on the greater whole. We all perceive and react to the stimuli and influences of the places closest to us. These characters are intimately written in us and naturally emerge from the depths in other environments as well. The author develops this sensitivity in a pictorial cycle of the transformation of the events of the reclaimed landscape, which she strongly perceived in her birthplace in Severočeský Duchcov and later in Kladno. In a time-consuming way, he observes the changing state of the Mayrau heap near Vinařice, its natural succession and the renewal of natural events. He collects and selects heaps, transported slag from the nearby Polda smelter and stored ash from the local boiler house. Alchemically, he examines these materials, uncovering their peculiarities, composition, color, natural reactions and the formation of secondary minerals. It procedurally records them on recycled boards. He mixes and mixes them with pigments into colored states by casting, layering up to informal structures. Matter is freely destroyed and discarded during the process, thanks to the action of chemical changes, with the help of water, salts and air, it crystallizes in places.  The author allows the transformation of mutual relationships to flow freely into a unified whole. The structures of salt crystals stand out well on the velvet-covered boards, and their motifs become part of some paintings. The installation is enriched with a research perspective, displaying mineral objects found in coal mines, borrowed from the collections of the Ostrava Museum. The permanence of our knowledge makes sense by connecting with the intensely present perception of holistic changes.