41.8 x 26 x 4 cm
16 1/2 x 10 1/4 x 1 5/8 in
unique
Across her oeuvre, Hosnedlová melds sci-fi aesthetics with the meticulously handcrafted. She already began to experiment with traditional techniques of silk cotton embroidery while at art school in the class...
Across her oeuvre, Hosnedlová melds sci-fi aesthetics with the meticulously handcrafted. She already began to experiment with traditional techniques of silk cotton embroidery while at art school in the class of Czech artist Jiří Kovanda. The repetitive, painstaking handwork of creating an image from layers of thread fascinated her. To this day, she sews each embroidery herself in its entirety.
The artist develops her imagery using a protocol that defines her practice: she creates non-public performances within her exhibitions, orchestrates peculiar actions which are photographed for the exclusive purpose of providing pictorial fodder for the embroideries that will be shown in her next exhibition—where, in turn, she will design the actions, settings, and costumes for her subsequent set of embroideries. Thus, each presentation of Hosnedlová’s work over the last years has carried within it the imagery of the performance that preceded it, while each exhibition or presentation also becomes the anticipatory site and backdrop for imagery that she will realize for subsequent exhibitions. Science fiction necessitates some kind of time travel, which the embroidered scenes not only take as inspiration but also enact in their own way. The imagery of this work was sourced from the performance documentation which took place in her solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel in 2024. The embroidery will be included in her upcoming solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin this Spring.
