Flaesh (Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Kiki Smith, Louise Bourgeois) – Petr Nedoma

The catalogue of Fleash exhibition (in Czech and English) features an introductory essay by the exhibition’s curator, Peter Nedoma, and reproductions of all of the exhibited works.

This selected body of works by five female artists centres on figural output, drawing on various techniques and materials cultivating elemental contemplations of individual human identity, reflections of inner life, existential maxims, and a fine web of emotions. The exhibition explores the human body’s function and role in contemporary art, questioning whether art is still a reflection of the body or, increasingly, a surface on which we project inner life. It examines what contents and modern dogmas we communicate in the human form, whether this may be a proxy means of expressing hard-to-grasp mental tribulations and joys, and whether and how a figure can reflect heightened emotions emerging from unavoidable historical faults or personal tragedies.