Lucie Hošková
About
Lucie Hošková, despite her young age (born in 1999), is already an established artist with exhibition experience in Prague, Pardubice, and Kutná Hora. Her works, which blend an abstract informal aesthetic with specific mimetic scenes referencing Gnosticism and Neoplatonism, reveal a surprisingly intricate cosmology. The physis of matter in Hošková's work is conceived as a diabolical realm of suffering and decay, while its antithesis, the antiphysis of the metaphysical sphere of spirit, is depicted as a beautiful yet tragically unattainable goal, imprisoned within the human body (soma sema).
The artist has created her own myths (bearing some resemblance to the esoteric teachings of William Blake) with an overlay of Gnostic creationist doctrine, where the divine Pleroma, interacting with Sophia, gave rise to Chaos as the womb of the Demiurge, an intermediary between God and the material world. The two Trees of Knowledge of Adam and Eve, together with purely supersensory (noumenal) aeons, form the backdrop of the artist's philosophical tragedy. In this narrative, love is unmasked as primal desire (see Schopenhauer's Wille zum Leben), and the sole purpose of life is the liberation of the psyche, which can only occur after the terminal decomposition of the body. This body, encased in its sarcophagus of tendons and tissues, crushes our spiritual essence like a medieval iron maiden.
Selected exhibitions
