2/12 2023 – 28/1 2024

Alena FOUSTKOVÁ: Women Must Cover Their Heads Because They Are Not the Image of God

Museum Kampa regularly presents the work of artists who spent a significant part of their life in emigration. Such is the case of multimedia artist Alena Foustková (born 1957), whose exhibition Women Must Cover Their Heads Because They Are Not the Image of God explores the multiple layers of women’s trauma. Foustková’s objects, embroideries, assemblages, and videos weave together her personal traumas and the collective experience of womanhood. Some of these works trace the origins of Christian thought and its distortion through centuries of dogmatic interpretation, which became a vital tool for the mass oppression of women.