Nest is the first solo exhibition in Germany by artist Klára Hosnedlová. The exhibition follows the artist’s extensive research on the historical site of Ještěd Tower in the Czech Republic, iconic architecture and model project from the 1970s built to combine high-end technology and leisure for locals. The hyperbolic tower houses a weather station, a transmission antenna, and in its surrounding shell, a design hotel.
The exhibition is a picture puzzle on alienation from late-capitalist future projections. Nest questions the idea of futurity as a safe space, alluding to both the home device and the bird’s nest. It is composed of a series of glass sculptures and embroidered portraits with images filtered through its media—blown up, cropped, pixelated into a landscape of minuscule stitches. Mounted on tinted terrazzo cast from bulging shapes of insulating foam, the images hover over a barren background. The works don’t offer vistas; the foreground goes back endlessly, involving the viewer in the twists and turns of the cotton thread.
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Klára Hosnedlová, Untitled (from the series Nest), 2020 -
Klára Hosnedlová, Untitled (from the series Nest), 2020
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Klára Hosnedlová, Untitled (from the series Nest), 2020
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Klára Hosnedlová, Untitled (from the series Nest), 2020
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Klára Hosnedlová, Untitled (from the series Nest), 2020
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Klára Hosnedlová, Untitled (from the series Nest), 2020
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The hyperbolic Ještěd Tower in the Czech Republic houses a weather station, a transmission antenna, and in its surrounding shell, a design hotel.
Evoking the signals emitted from the Ještěd Tower, in Untitled (from the series Nest), 2020, flickering lights emanate through the shadows of the handblown glass pillars as if to transmit signals in a permanent suspension.
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