After the decay of memory, only a glassy echo remains
Alžběta Drcmánková
This project can be seen this year at Circulation(s), which takes place from March 21 to May 17 in Paris, France. The full program is available here.
Alžběta Drcmánková explores the contemporary need to escape from the modern world to take refuge in archetypal landscapes, matrix spaces that recall the refuge of the cave and the desire to reconnect with nature and the cycle of time.
She reinterprets digital imagery with embroideries that she makes with seed beads. Through this rigorous and repetitive process, the image comes apart bead by bead to eventually disintegrate. Yet, each piece becomes a tactile extension of the photograph.
Here, the artist welcomes “glitches” – visual defects – as a fertile element. Each time, she starts her work with a precise grid, but as she embroiders, her focus wavers and her intuition takes over. The threads trace the flow of time – that of the weaving’s own movement as well as that of the captured moment. The embroidery work becomes both a tool and a meditation on the fragmentation of the image, of memory and of meaning.
