MIROSLAVA KLESALOVÁ: LANDSCAPE RE-CONSTRUCTION

The focus of Mirka Klesalová’s long-term work is personal memory. How does one relate to one’s environment? Why? What do they react to? What does he remember? What does he touch and what does he deliberately get rid of? But he does not look at it independently, that would perhaps not even be possible. He reflects on its context, cultural history, the history of the landscape and its dynamics. The general or objectifying limit to which it refers is the process of collectivization of agriculture, which took place on a massive scale in the 1950s. Its impact on the landscape and social structures is reflected in the example of his own “homeland”, the region of southwest Bohemia, Pošumava. He develops the process of internal transformation and possible cultivation of the given condition in a series of tangible objects, “garments”, created from geotextiles. The structure of each work is based not only on the visuality of cadastral maps and their natural geometry, but also works with elements of human being, aesthetics and poetic semantics. Their visual conception is based on the importance of handicraft and material, layering and the procedural aspect of the matter play a role here.

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