Klára Korbelová - From the series She and I

In this large-scale canvas from the She and I series, Klára Korbelová orchestrates a collision of memory fragments, bodily textures, and psychic residue. Disparate forms—a lace sleeve, a tiled floor, a hovering hand—float across a compressed visual field, layered in vibrating patterns and dense chromatic contrasts.

Unlike the first part of the diptych, which leans into the suffocating gravity of addiction, this second panel offers an ambiguous comedown. The palette is warmer, even playful in places, but the objects feel detached—spectral. A velvet curtain, a tilted box, and circular motifs hint at the afterglow of intoxication, now emptied of presence.

Here, Korbelová doesn’t narrate; she composes. Each element becomes a signal—part domestic, part symbolic—shaped by repetition and fragmentation. What remains is not a scene, but a state: the moment when memory has lost its timeline and the self drifts through patterned remnants, searching for coherence.

This piece was featured in Best of AVU, Summer 2025 at HIDDEN Gallery—a curated showcase of standout works by emerging students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.