Tereza Buskova
Czech artist Tereza Buskova (b.1978, Prague) completed her Fine Art Printmaking MA at the RCA in 2007. Winning awards in the UK, Canada and Estonia, Buskova's work has received international acclaim and in 2008 she was selected from among thousands for the Axis Future50 most impressive emerging artists. She has rapidly established a reputation for bold reinterpretation and celebration of her cultural inheritance. Critics describe how her pieces provoke complex experiences, both ‘rich in exotic imagery’ and ‘confusingly sinister’. Her varied techniques – including film, screen printing and performance – identify her pieces with both improvisation and collaboration, notably with Zoe Simon and Bela Emerson. A collection of her work will be shown at 176 this summer in A Tradition I do Not Mean To Break.
The Beheading Of The Cockerel
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Photography
103cm x 73cm
Edition 3 of 3, Screen print
In an amalgam of tradition and modernity, this work utilizes a pre-harvest ritual still celebrated in Moravia. Young girls lead a cockerel, now cardboard cutout, by red ribbons to be bound to a barrel before a blindfolded young boy attempts to behead it. Both the ritual and the nudity of the female figure emphasise human connection to our heritage and the natural world from whence we came.
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