Filomena Borecka

Filomena Borecká lives, works and exhibits mainly in France. She has also created works in Prague and New York, and each place and its particular vibrations leaves its traces in her work. Filomena has three parallel threads of work, which complement and interact with one another: performance, sound sculptures, and drawings. These last ones are like seismographs, which not only record the states of the artist’s soul but attentively listen in on and lead a continuous dialogue with their surroundings. Her body of work thus contains within itself not only the imprint of places (New York City, 2003, Transmigration Paris–Prague, 2003–2004, Transmigration New York, 2003) and nature (the Méristèmes project) but also people the artist has met. They have played a role in her work, for example, in records of their sleep, which Filomena used in her spatial sound installation Spouts; in the last months people had the opportunity to donate (record) their breath to the artist for a new multimedia project titled Phrenos. Breath is precisely what connects and links us all to what we cannot escape, neither in space nor in time. We divide ourselves randomly according to air, whatever our relationships may be. And this is exactly what Filomena also explores in her latest drawings, which have evocative titles such as Attraction, Connection, Views, Diffusion, Inner Escape, Unexpected Impact …. She first attempted to record interpersonal relationships and communication within them with a black pencil on paper, then with colored pencils on paper, and today with pencil, ink and colored pencils on canvas and on gallery walls. These drawings are a logical continuation in the artist’s body of work, in which every drawing, every object, every painting exists in and of itself as an independent work but at the same time is part of a greater whole – a body of work which maintains an exceptional unity. In her new works, Filomena Borecká isn’t searching at all costs for originality or a new concept, but on the contrary she preserves an integrity that is today quite rare. And that is mainly because the inspiration and necessity to create art derive from the artist herself. Anna Pravdová, Prague 

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Contact - filomena.borecka@voila.fr