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The Fragility and Strength of Fibre

23. 05. 2025 -
05. 10. 2025

The exhibition Fragility and Strength of Fibre presents a cross-section of Eva Damborská’s lifelong work. The artist’s work is based on a deeply rooted female experience – the ability to listen, perceive changeability and patiently layer meaning where others see only the surface. The artist works with fiber as an artistic and existential medium through which she thematizes silence, care, memory, and the cyclical power of life. Here, fiber is not only a vehicle for form, but also for time, relationships, memory, and the vulnerable beauty of life. Damborská draws inspiration primarily from nature – from the invisible rhythms of growth and decay, from the organic structures of spider webs, nests, cocoons and delicate plant cells. The artist easily crosses the boundaries of traditional textile techniques. Her works are not just artefacts, but rather organic compositions where weaving, embroidery, layering and spatial construction are intertwined into a single whole. The fragility and strength of the fiber offers a space to stop and listen – to the subtle rhythms of care, the invisible work, the quiet effort that often remains hidden, yet holds everything together. In the raw space of the Turbine Hall, the rawness of the architecture contrasts with the subtlety of the structures, a reminder that it is the quietest and most fragile that often harbours the greatest power – the power to create, protect and transform.