(click image for more details)Beauty For One Day, 2008
screen print
88cm x 59cm (unframed)
Forgotten Marriage, 2008
6 mins 40 secs
Wedding Rituals, 2007
9 mins 14 secs
Tereza Buskova's stated aim is to 'put raw human sexuality in the spotlight. It is an unavoidable keystone of our existence bound up in our folklore and traditions'. Though having undertaken both graduate and postgraduate art education in the UK, Buskova draws heavily on her Czech origins. Her work is actively steeped in Bohemian symbols and myths, and is full of stylistic references to Eastern European cultural traditions, especially those of theatre, film and animation.
For Buskova, 'costumes, props, models and makeup are my tools'. Foregrounding theatre and fantasy, the starting point for her photographic, print, film and performance work is the creation of elaborate and carnivalesque costumes and sets as the props and backdrops to an improvised 'tableaux vivant' combined with a ritualistic narrative-free performance.
She invites us to gaze into a private world, unbound by traditional concepts of time and space, where anything is possible (and permitted). Mixing reality with fiction, she denies the viewer a purely autobiographical reading of the work. Simultaneously poetic and overtly sexual, the deliberate ambiguity inherent in the work is intended to cause unease, blurring together dreams, fetishes, fears, gender/sexuality and desire and playing with our perception of reality in the process.
Paul Stone, 2008
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