Mapping
"Mapping 1" reconfigures Sebastian Münster's 1628 map, "Europa Regina," which depicts Europe as a female figure in a long gown with Bohemia at its center. I deconstructed and altered this historical map to playfully illustrate the initial concept for the "Meet The Memory Person" project: a public, collaborative textile gown that embodies the memories of its different wearers as it is passed on and modified. To this allegorical map, I added Burmester curves, which are used in both mathematics and textile design, and a sewing pattern as additional elements.
Mapping 1
2024
Fine Art Print on paper
60 x 80 cm
Exhibited at House of Arts, Ústí nad Labem as part of IDENT 4. 12. 2024 – 8. 3. 2025 and Gallery Karin Sachs, Munich as part of Archived ruptures – Ruptured archives 28. – 29. 11. 2024
Cataloge in Czech and English language
Created as part of the residency at the House of Arts, supported by The Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem and Schafhof Europäisches Kunstforum Oberbayern
The patchwork (untitled) jacket carries "Mapping 1", extending the narrative to the latest "Meet The Memory Person" project stage in Ústí nad Labem. This jacket notably incorporates Petr Růžička's former punk leather jacket he donated to the project, a powerful reminder of his pre-Velvet Revolution musical activities in Teplice (Czech Republic), followed by his imprisonment as a passionate musician at young age.
Mapping 1 and patchwork jacket (untitled) (in the foreground)
2024-2025
Ink drawing, paint, canvas; garments
Various dimensions
Exhibited at Gallery Kampus Hybernská, Prague as part of Voices of Memory 14. – 18. 7. 2025 and the Memory Studies Association 2025 meeting in Prague.
Supported by The Cultural Department of the City of Munich (travel grant)
Photo credit: Franziska Windolf
Mapping 2
2025
Fine Art Print on paper
13 x 18 cm
Exhibited at Schafhof Europäisches Kunstforum Oberbayern as part of Transformation | Fokus Europa VI 01.03. – 27.04.2025
