ALMA PRAGUE

Curators: Eliška Hradec Chomisteková & Michaela Mell
Photography: Michal Ureš

In collaboration with Nookart Art Gallery, the work What is the colour of our presence? no.4 was presented within the restaurant Alma Prague, extending my ongoing exploration of temporality, materiality, and attentive presence.

The piece originates from an inner need to slow down within the accelerated conditions of the present. Situated at the intersection of craftsmanship and abstraction, the work is shaped through a sensitive engagement with coloured clay, where deliberate gesture intertwines with the material’s own spontaneity. Drawing on the traditional technique of coil building, I reinterpret it into a contemporary visual language, allowing color to become an intrinsic component of the material rather than a surface addition.

Through its layered, processual formation, stripe by stripe, moment by moment, the object operates as a subtle record of time, its rhythm and atmosphere. The resulting form appears both fragile and fluid, carrying a meditative quality that invites the viewer into a state of slowing down and deeper awareness of the present moment.

2024, Prague
colored clay, orange and pink pigments,
hand-built technique
90 × 65 × 0,5 cm