Tereza Stehlikova: Artistic research into sensory perception & embodiment
My Tangible Territory journal is open for submissions for its 5th issue. The core theme of the issue is focused on MOTHER/DAUGHTER relationships. But because all rules are there to be questioned and creatively subverted, we are also open to submissions focused on FATHER/SON relationships or other important family bonds/mirroring. The general TT journal perspective remains: ie. the... Continue Reading →
This year seemed unlikely at first: from the constraints of our London abode, with no outside space, just a tiny flat where not even windows can be properly opened, the idea of South Bohemia, with its open landscape, became utopia. But as the lockdown rules across Europe started to relax, we took the opportunity to... Continue Reading →
Twice a year four generations of women (my grandmother, my mother, myself and my daughter) gather in a family house in Southern Bohemia or in an apartment in Prague, where my family has been living in for the past 60 years. Together, we participate in the ritual of filming. This ongoing project begun in 2011, when I felt... Continue Reading →
From my continued filmic studies of the bonds between my grandmother, mother, daughter and myself. In Prague, December 2015.
These are stills from a short film, From You, to Me, with Love, 2015 made for an exhibition, opening this September in Tokyo: 'absolute now' is a group exhibition which takes the essay, Time and Eternity by D.T. Suzuki (see left), as a starting point to examine the universal concept of time and its relationship to... Continue Reading →
This is the next instalment of stills from my filmic explorations of the four generations of women in my family. Here my grandmother and my daughter, looking together at my grandmother's memoir, which she spent 10 years writing up. The book includes a number of photographs, and other personal mementos, including my grandfather's letters to her from... Continue Reading →
I am currently preparing an exhibition together with my colleague Rosalyn Driscoll, entitled Generation. It consists of a series of videos projected onto sculptures made of rawhide. We have been looking at the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone as a trigger to explore the bonds and tensions between four generations of women. In... Continue Reading →
Cinesthetic feasts 