Eyes Like Dreams - Pekelné Sáně Gallery by Sabina Knetlová 12.1.2024 - 28.3.2024Curator: David Korecký

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I would like to conceive of it as a landscape, mythological, subtly fantastical, which would be an analogy to how I perceive my inner space. >> My personal space, my inner space, me space, unknown space, self-limiting space. >> It would be about seeing myself more as someone wandering and encountering the pitfalls of myself, discovering nooks and crannies, finding myself in my own strange world. >> To make this statement I would like to work with wooden poles, the ends machined to a point, forming a lattice, a barrier, a spear... at the same time it could form a landscape element, a forest. It would also be a good way to separate the space. >> I would still like to work with the motif of eyes. To communicate through the eyes, to create a connection. >> Eyes as dreams, desires, contact, conscience. >> I don't want it to look like death, more like a gentle melancholy. >> I'm a work in progress and it's hard to talk about something that's not finished.

Can imaginative language point to something we find finished, completed? Can haptic, material and form qualities lead to an ultimate state? Or the human figure, its inner world, open to unexpected and irrational events and influences?

The more reduced and personal the approach, the more formally legible, the more blurred the possibility of articulating specific messages. Sabina Knetlová intuitively searches the history of classical sculpture, the mythology of civilization and the personal, with a firm awareness of the impossibility of giving a finished report. She presents the story of herself and the world around her with the utmost openness to what is to come. As when a visitor enters a space with her work and the eyes of her work, if only for a moment, look into the visitor's inner world.