PeterStigma



The digital fatality of hand imprints is another space for him in the eroded folds and slots where he inserts / hides peculiar pictograms, indicating the turning points and escapades of local history. The insignia of Saint Stephen, the papal tiara and communist red star march in the pantheon, while figures from bedtime TV fairy tales reign in the juvenile pop team. They are also pampered and unwanted fragments of Peter’s personal experience, who like his wife, belongs to the generation of Husák’s children. They can be peculiar rosettes, demonstrative symbols of doubt, uncertainty, as well as awareness and support. To him they are not only stigmas, they are the context in which we are rooted, willingly or not.

—Viera Kleinová


Stigma / brooch, silver, plastic, 2020
Stigma / brooch, silver, plastic, 2020
Stigma / brooch, silver, plastic, 2020
Stigma / brooch, silver, plastic, 2020
Stigma / brooch, silver, plastic, 2020
Stigma / brooch, silver, plastic, 2020
Stigma / brooch, silver, plastic, 2020
Stigma / brooch, silver, plastic, 2020
Stigma / brooch, silver, plastic, 2020
For dad to heal / brooch, silver, plastic, 2020
Stigma / brooch, silver, plastic, 2020
Stigma / brooch, silver, plastic, 2020


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