As part of the exhibition MY SHOES, YOUR SHOES Kamila Ženatá invited eight artists and their daughters to a generational dialogue that explored the emotional legacy of their families. The gallery was transformed into an apartment divided into several rooms – and in each of them, a story was played out, created by a “family composition” of the female authors. It involved records of memories, maps of the landscape of consciousness and the unconscious, abstracts of emotions and dreams, processing of family stories and lineages passed down from generation to generation by women.
On the Emílie project, I collaborated with my daughter Karla and mother Božena.
We had a non-violent dialogue about our ancestor Emílie and traveled to places associated with her. All this based on fragments and associations emerging from the family memory. We underwent an intuitive ritual along one female line in the roles of grandmother, mother and daughter. A ritual with an unspoken perspective on our ancestors – my grandmother Ludmila and great-grandmother Emílie, murdered by white neighbors in a concentration camp in Auschwitz – for their Roma origin.
