Generation: the installation
Czech film-maker Tereza Stehlíková and American sculptor Rosalyn Driscoll merge video and sculpture to create a haunting installation about the progression of life through generations of women. Drawing on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, the artists explore the fluid exchange between conscious awareness and unconscious forces, and the contradictions between possibilities and limitations that lie at the heart of our embodied lives. Stehlíková filmed her grandmother, mother, daughter and herself in their country house in Bohemia, focusing her camera on the bonds and tensions between the generations. Driscoll's organic, translucent sculptures, made of rawhide, paper and beeswax, convey the complexities of the mother-daughter relationships. Stehlíková’s videos are projected into Driscoll’s sculptures, transforming both. The projected images animate the sculptures, while their visceral physicality reveals a hidden dimension under the women’s seemingly composed surfaces. The installation fills the gallery, moving from the outer world of the house and fields, and descending to the underworld, a rich, mysterious inner world, where the women seek their way, individually and together.
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