For her first institutional solo show, Klára Hosnedlová metamorphoses Kestner Gesellschaft’s organic interiors into labyrinthian interiorities, laboriously modelling spatialities of voyeuristic surfaces - oblique mirrors of humanoid selves. Her monumental performative sculptures, suspended like clouds of opaque matter, are incubators of corporeal poetry, generous habitats for miniature images of a fragmented world at the brink of exhaustion. There it is: a mise en scene of the ecology of intimacy in a claustrophobic womb of overexposure.

Alien forms in amorphic spasm, or post-bodies in rebirth? Klára Hosnedlová’s haunted landscapes of corporeality ignore gravity of sense and its deranged mathematics. Instead, their governmentality masters the librettos of critical nostalgia and a rejuvenated pathos. Is it a promise of a long-forgotten trust in times of unconditional love, once the only password to a desiring machine of our organs? Is it a doubt, hovering above the whimsical romance of our dreams of infinity? Time is neither virtual nor palpable; a growth occurs beyond a temporal measure. This is a universe of post-romantic cyborg-like hybrids of an immortal drive. Space is a mental caprice; ever-transformative, fluid sensation of seduction, composed of illusionary depths and irregular alliances. Hosnedlová’s is a shamanistic rite of a renewal and redemption, an alchemic tale on a surgical table of a phantasmagoric cocoon, an emballage of a dream. We are in a realm of initiation: a possible and necessary, new genesis of the post-human and post-nature.

Getting under the skin of a pictorial field, the artist performs a mirage of a painterly image: narrative gestures of a stitching process, elaborated with care and precision of a surgeon and a storyteller, trick the perception and deceive the senses, generating a suspense of disbelief. Meticulously layered, silk threads on a smooth surface of a canvas resemble the subtle movements of brush strokes, producing a dense texture of a unique, estranged nature, a zone of fragility with almost relief-like visual effect. Alienation through a method, and a fragmentation of a story leave an image at its utmost affect, an unspoken, yet nearly epiphany-like stage. We oscillate between the concealment and revelation, on a threshold of the visible; in an autonomous zone of a sensual contamination, between resilience and perseverance, glamour and violence, the perennial and ephemeral.

As such, Hosnedlová situates her hybrid practice at the multi-confluence of craft, fashion, design, architecture, sculpture and performance. Inspired by modern and brutalist architecture of Central-Eastern Europe and folkloric Bohemian textile traditions, the artist choreographs complex, immersive environments of a striking cinematic and theatrical quality that recall capsules of time, planted for undefined moments of the futurity.

In collaboration with Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler and White Cube.