From Prague to Paris, from Manila to Antibes, from South Carolina to Seine-Saint-Denis, Tereza Lochmann meets people and creates imprints.
Diverting the practice of engraving, she makes it an experimental and living medium, crossed with drawing, painting and collage.
Encounter of the third type is the title of the work on the front and that of the artist's first personal exhibition at the Kaléidoscope gallery.
Like Steven Spielberg's popular film, Tereza Lochmann's works invite the viewer to open up to the unknown, to hybridization, to crossroads, to marginality, metaphorized in her work by the recurring figure of stray dog.
Derived from the Greek tupos “imprint”, the term “type” also echoes the mirror effects specific to the technique of engraving...
Read more in the exhibition booklet...