Braid

Marie Lukáčová (1991) is a graduate of Prague's UMPRUM, and also studied at Brno Faculty of Fine Arts of BUT and Kunstakademie Mainz in Germany. It is currently Pedagogue at FAMU in Prague. Works primarily in video media and video installation but Also drawings and performance. Lukáčová presented her work at a number of exhibitions in Czech I and International environment, for example within the Prague Biennial Matter of Art, in EFA Project Space in New York, Moravian Gallery in Brno or Plato Ostrava. She took part in prestigious foreign residential programs and internships and in 2019 was once Of the five finalists and finalists of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award.

Marie Lukáčová works with themes from old legends and the current economy, mixing witch and ritual practices with exact data on climate change or financial streams. Drawing The braids (Braids) are part of the Broths series (broths) that the author considers as a healing visual spells. The series is inspired by the motif of kitchen and cooking, when the broth becomes a field for magical energy exchange between artist (cook, witch), vegetables and by animal bones. The ubiquitous copy of the drawings symbolize female power. Cut off A strand of hair can be about love and manipulation, the hair in the soup is faux waist but in magic Potions have a clear place. A properly entangled braid is almost like a whip and long hair They say they carry their own memory. There are no jokes with the braids.

Karina Kottová