After the decay of memory, only a glassy
Czech republic
2026
This series explores the contemporary urge to escape the modern world into archetypal landscapes — spaces recalling the cave’s refuge and a longing to reconnect with nature and cyclical time. Embroidery with seed beads becomes a tactile extension of photography: the digital image is slowly transformed through a precise, repetitive process, decomposing bead by bead until it disintegrates.
After years of working with photography, she now allows a “mistake” — a visual glitch — as a fertile element. Initially guided by a measured grid, the process slows, attention drifts, and intuition takes over. Threads trace the flow of time — the endlessness of process and of the captured moment. Embroidery thus becomes both technique and meditation on the fragmentation of image, memory, and meaning.
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About the artist
Alžběta Drcmánková was born in 2001 in the Czech countryside. In her work, she moves between fine art, research, and documentary. Her practice explores themes of collective memory, violence, and materiality. She is interested in how memory and trauma are embedded in materials, landscapes, and bodies~and how they can be transformed through artistic processes.