wedding dress, acrylic, canvas, 240×190 cm

purchased in 2023 with support from the Czech Republic Ministry of Culture

This large-scale work features an assemblage of real wedding dresses applied to a canvas support. The surrounding surface is composed of a colourful structure created as a graphic imprint of a road soaked with acrylic paint, on which the artist laid the dress.

Titlová-Ylovsky treats the motif of the wedding dress as an object carrying the personal story of a specific individual. More broadly, however, it can be understood as a significant ritual garment for women within Euro-Atlantic culture. It is strongly linked to emotions—both joy and happiness as well as anxiety and fear—despite being worn for only a single day. This emotional urgency is translated into the blue printed structure of the assemblage, which not only surrounds the dress but also penetrates it entirely.

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