Soft Breakdown

The exhibition by Lucie Rosická (b. 1998) offers an intimate look at how female identity changes through motherhood, the body and introspective observation. Formally, it builds on the artist’s earlier work, which conceptually explores the boundaries between traditional textile techniques and contemporary visual language. Rosická works with materials such as velvet, batting, beads and acrylic gel nails, turning them into figurative embroideries and tactile objects. She sometimes combines these with airbrush or 3D-printed components, creating layered structures that read as visual diaries of a particular time, anchored in her life situation at that moment. In Soft Breakdown, Lucie Rosická explores her own body as both medium and site of conflict, mainly through satin-stitch embroidery in dark thread. This self-reflective process traces physical and mental states such as fatigue, despair or disappointment, and it is precisely these new, previously unspoken emotions that she is willing to share in her textile works. Her current work brings together the roles of mother, woman and artist, which both question and strengthen one another. Soft Breakdown examines the specific period right after the transformative experience of early motherhood. Instead of the expected return to a former self and personal autonomy, what comes is the need to focus on the complicated process of piecing together one’s own fragmented identity.