Henshin Panoply
2024
Sculpture, Mixed Media Installation
Thermoplastics, steel, roses, agar agar, vinegar, glycerin, water, PVC
Support by: Sala d’Art Jove 2024
Created in residence at Petrohradská Koléktiv, Prague, CZ
Exhibited in:
2024 I swear that I will become a prince, Jedna Dva Try Gallery, Praga, CZ
Henshin Panoply is the material formalization of the project Magical Theys. A set of armor made with transparent thermosensitive plastics, bioplastics, and roses that will not serve to prevent the fragility of the body but rather to exalt and adorn it. It is a shell that functions as an aesthetic covering to perform a fantastic non-binarism: armor without protection at the heart, extravagant, transparent, and fragile.
These armors evoke dissident bodies. Their ornamental coverings, trans- lucent and delicate, reveal the vulnerability of a bio-skin made of roses, inscribed with desires and revolutions. There is a heart-door on the chest, ready to open and lead to a pathless world where we can forge new trails, and along them, roses will bloom.
Photographers: Adriana Vančová & Anna Pleslová