Markéta Jáchimová

White unicorn gallery in Klatovy

10. 8. - 31. 10. 2019

Markéta Jáchimová (1988) hails from the Domažlice region, studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture, and Design in Prague, and currently works at the KALI Gallery in Lucerne. Her long-term artistic interest is time. Time as a moment in this world and time that does not exist – timelessness or eternity and the porous boundary between the two – excite her as much as the physicality through which we experience them. Symbolically related to this potency are the organic fragments that she often incorporates into her works. Another important element in her art is the forest, for the Czech forests played an important role in her childhood. In fact, childhood itself is another important foundation for her work. In the installation at the Church of St. Lawrence, Jáchimová combines minimalist elements with the quasi-Baroque form of her painting objects. Her fascination with the tension between eternity and the mortality of the body, which as in the Baroque is reflected through various intercessions into endless space, finds profoundly symbolic expression.