the fountain of togetherness: in bubbles we are one
2024 spatial installation
The Queer Geobacter, Quartair, Den Haag, NL
stoneware fountain vessel pumping water with mint syrup, soil
Mythologically, fountain is recognised as a magical vessel yealding certain powers enhanced by drinking.
This fountain has the power to bring people together and facillitate space for connection and queer belonging. Here, hydration is seen as a community ritual, an enhancement of the communal body of water we are all connected to - feeling our roots tugging underground, growing towards new spaces and twirling around the ones established.
The fountain creates a space to think and ruminate in a world where there is no time to just sit down and simply be.
2024 spatial installation
The Queer Geobacter, Quartair, Den Haag, NL
stoneware fountain vessel pumping water with mint syrup, soil
Mythologically, fountain is recognised as a magical vessel yealding certain powers enhanced by drinking.
This fountain has the power to bring people together and facillitate space for connection and queer belonging. Here, hydration is seen as a community ritual, an enhancement of the communal body of water we are all connected to - feeling our roots tugging underground, growing towards new spaces and twirling around the ones established.
The fountain creates a space to think and ruminate in a world where there is no time to just sit down and simply be.
In here we are all in peace
2023 spatial installation
Destillaat #25, Extrapool, Nijmegen
baked stoneware fountain vessel pumping rooibos tea, 5 unfired clay vessels slowly dissolving in liquid, a poem and a risoprinted wallpaper
in here we are all in peace is a spatial installation developed during my residency stay at Extrapool. The installation is a product of continual exploration of the relation of water to beings and materials. Running on the overarching thought that everyone is a body of water, as proposed in the text Bodies of Water: Posthuman feminist phenomenology by Astrida Neimanis, I built an oasis of interconnectedness and togetherness. Here, hydration is seen as a community ritual, an enhancement of the communal body of water we are all connected to and entering and existing in this space together is an act of care in a hostile, fast-paced world.
Unfired clay vessels mimic human bodies growing backwards as they are being hydrated and slowly dissolved into their previous form. Their transformation back into raw form of material is seen as a performance and spans over various days as the act of recycling clay is a lengthy and physical process.
Via this action, clay reclamation becomes a poetic metaphor for rebirth, enhancing the same external pool we are when we have a cup of water.
2023 spatial installation
Destillaat #25, Extrapool, Nijmegen
baked stoneware fountain vessel pumping rooibos tea, 5 unfired clay vessels slowly dissolving in liquid, a poem and a risoprinted wallpaper
in here we are all in peace is a spatial installation developed during my residency stay at Extrapool. The installation is a product of continual exploration of the relation of water to beings and materials. Running on the overarching thought that everyone is a body of water, as proposed in the text Bodies of Water: Posthuman feminist phenomenology by Astrida Neimanis, I built an oasis of interconnectedness and togetherness. Here, hydration is seen as a community ritual, an enhancement of the communal body of water we are all connected to and entering and existing in this space together is an act of care in a hostile, fast-paced world.
Unfired clay vessels mimic human bodies growing backwards as they are being hydrated and slowly dissolved into their previous form. Their transformation back into raw form of material is seen as a performance and spans over various days as the act of recycling clay is a lengthy and physical process.
Via this action, clay reclamation becomes a poetic metaphor for rebirth, enhancing the same external pool we are when we have a cup of water.
Portal to the Hazy Place where if You stay long enough You’ve chosen to become it
2023
Graduation Project,
Bachelor of Art,
Willem de Kooning Academie
The Hazy Place is a multimedia installation opening an entrance to another world.
Consisting of sculptures based on artists’ dreams, an immersive landscape where impossible becomes real emerges and invites the viewer in. Utilising the automatic techniques present during the surrealist movement, the beings and places from the artists’ dreams merge and transform, she invites you for a journey of bizarre and mystical sightseeing.
Taking a deeply private, subconscious world and presenting it publicly with openness to interpretation makes this space a vulnerable self-portrait and exists as a weird form of a post-diary. The artist gets lost inside herself and invites you to get lost in her too. Using escapism as a means of care in the world full of uncertainty and responsibilities, the Hazy Place functions as an oasis where one can forget and just observe and be.
2023
Graduation Project,
Bachelor of Art,
Willem de Kooning Academie
The Hazy Place is a multimedia installation opening an entrance to another world.
Consisting of sculptures based on artists’ dreams, an immersive landscape where impossible becomes real emerges and invites the viewer in. Utilising the automatic techniques present during the surrealist movement, the beings and places from the artists’ dreams merge and transform, she invites you for a journey of bizarre and mystical sightseeing.
Taking a deeply private, subconscious world and presenting it publicly with openness to interpretation makes this space a vulnerable self-portrait and exists as a weird form of a post-diary. The artist gets lost inside herself and invites you to get lost in her too. Using escapism as a means of care in the world full of uncertainty and responsibilities, the Hazy Place functions as an oasis where one can forget and just observe and be.
Sny neprichádzajú (The dreams are not coming)
2023
Collection of glazed and unglazed earthenware and stoneware with glass details, sand, candles, mirrors, oyster shells collected after a cooked meal, text heat-transferred onto fabric, forest berry cake with baked-in marbles, sound
Sny neprichádzajú is a result of joint efforts and tender coexistence of Vanda Vlašičová and Barbora Horňáková while working alongside each other for the period of four months.
Ceramic pieces emerged from the subconscious are situated in an imaginary landscape, sometimes complimenting and sometimes refusing each other. All objects are manifestations of the artists’ joint fascination with textures and ornamentality while not shying away from girlishness.
Exposition opened with a performance What do you even do in your dreams?, where the artists reflected on the bizarreness of the narratives formed in our brain while in deep slumber.
2023
Collection of glazed and unglazed earthenware and stoneware with glass details, sand, candles, mirrors, oyster shells collected after a cooked meal, text heat-transferred onto fabric, forest berry cake with baked-in marbles, sound
Sny neprichádzajú is a result of joint efforts and tender coexistence of Vanda Vlašičová and Barbora Horňáková while working alongside each other for the period of four months.
Ceramic pieces emerged from the subconscious are situated in an imaginary landscape, sometimes complimenting and sometimes refusing each other. All objects are manifestations of the artists’ joint fascination with textures and ornamentality while not shying away from girlishness.
Exposition opened with a performance What do you even do in your dreams?, where the artists reflected on the bizarreness of the narratives formed in our brain while in deep slumber.
some days you carry the weight of the entire Earth on your shoulders and there is nothing to be done about it. + on growing up and losing.
2021 series of scanner self-portraits, various flowers
Project which had bloomed after purchasing a shared printer into my household and exploring the freedom of experimentation within its use in a private space.
Tender coexistence between human and technology ensued in these images as a result of the intimacy of placing oneself on the glass of a scanner. What follows is a sort of one sided touch as the laser travels through the surface and captures everything on the surface, even tho the scanned being cannot feel it. It captures a quick moment of privacy.
This work also follows the artists research into the dictionary and symbolisms of plants. Capturing the themes explored in the images via the associated meanings of flowers as well metaphorically ingesting symbols.
2021 series of scanner self-portraits, various flowers
Project which had bloomed after purchasing a shared printer into my household and exploring the freedom of experimentation within its use in a private space.
Tender coexistence between human and technology ensued in these images as a result of the intimacy of placing oneself on the glass of a scanner. What follows is a sort of one sided touch as the laser travels through the surface and captures everything on the surface, even tho the scanned being cannot feel it. It captures a quick moment of privacy.
This work also follows the artists research into the dictionary and symbolisms of plants. Capturing the themes explored in the images via the associated meanings of flowers as well metaphorically ingesting symbols.
