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Opening: 5. 6. 2019 at 7pm

Curator: Laura Amann

In ’Our Bodies So Soft, Our Lives So Epic’ Šárka Koudelová creates an installation based on the eternal contradiction of the transient and fragile nature of our bodily presence and our desperate yet continuous attempts to achieve lasting proof of a life so grand by banning it to a precious piece of jewellery. Seductive, play- and masterful yet also uncanny at times, we are reminded of the complexity and symbolic richness these emotionally charged objects bear. A pendant passed from mother to daughter, a lover’s eye commissioned for a secret paramour, an intricate mourning ring made of a child’s hair, a simple yet unequivocally claiming wedding band - it is easy to relate one way or the other to these small scale sculptures, which are only activated by the wearing and tearing body - yet we rarely consider that these items usually profess what would be crass or tasteless for us to say and that their message is most likely to outlive wearer and purpose.

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