Ungetting

The collection Ungetting is the poetic debut of visual artist Markéta Adamcová. She combines poems with original drawings created during her residency at the INI gallery. The binding motif was the garden, which the artist explored as a space that maps and records traces inside her own body. She viewed the garden from different perspectives and times, revealing the constructed nature of our ideas about it. In doing so, she showed it as a romantic, spiritual and escapist idea, as well as a place where the wild and the cultivated potentially meet - wild nature and the human plan.

Adamcová writes her poems in parallel to her artistic practice, in which she explores the interplay between personal narrative, poetic principles, and the spiritual dimensions of natural and human systems. Drawing on painting, she focuses on how personal stories can be communicated through symbolic or abstract forms, offering viewers a way to move between the intimate and the universal. In her process, she often explores how literature and paintings intersect to evoke meanings on multiple levels, while incorporating the complexity of (in)human bodies to highlight the variety of internal structures and traces we leave within them.