We invite you to the presentation of the residency outcome of Czech artist Barbora Fastrová, taking place on 7 May at 6:00 PM at Pragovka Gallery.
During her residency, Fastrová focuses on textile waste as both a material and cultural phenomenon linked to overproduction and the changing value of things in contemporary society. Through long-term and systematic work with the material, she develops an imaginary world – a speculative visual vision of the future in which textiles function as one of the fundamental building blocks of the environment and organically merge with living organisms and bodily forms.
The aim of the residency is to create a series of objects made from discarded garments – textile structures that absorb material excess and transform it into new forms. Each of them contains dozens of pieces of clothing and, on a symbolic level, functions as a carrier of the process of reducing overproduction, contributing to the alleviation of material excess in the contemporary world.
Barbora Fastrová is a visual artist based in Prague. She originally studied photography at UMPRUM, but her practice has expanded to include sculpture, installation, and drawing. In her work, she focuses on themes of materiality, transformation, and sustainability, with an emphasis on waste and secondary materials—especially textile waste, which has become a key element of her current practice.
Since 2014, she has been collaborating with Johana Pošová; together they have realized projects such as Gris Gris (GfZK Leipzig) and Brother (Syntax, Lisbon), and in 2018 they initiated the project Cheap Art, which addressed sustainability within an institutional context. In 2022, she participated in the Flower Union project as part of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU.
Alongside her collaborative work, she develops a solo practice and participates in international residencies. Her work is connected to ecological art and ecofeminism, and she approaches sustainability as a fundamental principle of artistic production.
