plaster cast, wood, wheels, monitor, multimedia player

Acquired in 2023 with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic

Five objects, consisting of plaster casts of female torsos, are positioned on circular wooden mobile platforms. Where the heads would be, screens displaying recordings of the artist's performances are placed. With these objects, the artist has interconnected older works with newer ones. During the isolation of the coronavirus pandemic in 2021, she created casts of the torsos of her entire direct female family lineage: her mother's, her own, her daughter's, her aunt's, and her sister's. She complemented these bodily torsos with monitors showing video recordings of her own performances. The objects demonstrate the typical artistic approaches of Lenka Klodová, existing at the intersection of sculpture, exposed corporeality, performativity, and technology. However, they also possess a more personal, intimate dimension of hypothetical communication with family. The individual female family members—or rather, the plaster casts of their exposed torsos—are integrated into a specific artistic installation and thus enter into a shared unity.