Lucie Rosenfeldová
area: Fine Art, Artistic research, Film, Digital Art
Key Facts
nationality
Czech Republicarea
Fine Art, Artistic research, Film, Digital Artresidence
Praguerecommending institution
tranzit.org / ERSTE Stiftungtime period
July 2024 - August 2024Lucie Rosenfeldová is an artist and teacher based in Prague. In her practice, she primarily works with experimental documentary formats rooted in artistic research. Through her films, she engages with questions surrounding the evolving dynamics between representation and the human body. Her recent research concerns embodied memory, exploring its potential for scientific and artistic representation. Her work has been presented to both international and domestic audiences in a number of film screenings and exhibition projects.
Lucie Rosenfeldová studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague, initially in the painting studio and later in the sculpture studio. She was a member of the "Studio without a Master" as well as a member of various artistic research groups.
During her residency at MQ Lucie Rosenfeldová is developing the methodology and dramaturgy for her new documentary film. The project “How to (not) remember our bodies” is the culmination of her long-term artistic research on body memory within the realm of reproductive medicine. The artist merges the perspective of body memory, as delineated by contemporary neuroscience, with insights from the history of medicine. The new experimental documentary film will specifically interpret found image and text archives referring to the abortion technology and abortion committees during the period of state socialism in Czechoslovakia. This specific focus on abortion policies in socialist Czechoslovakia aims to uncover a diversity of approaches to reproductive technologies and to reveal determinants that may locally shape the memory of the female body and its politics in the specific context.
Drawing upon her reflections on mediation of bodily memory though an image, Rosenfeldova will develop a filmic methodology presenting corporeality as the intersection of different memories and histories, challenging the notion of a unified body and coherent subjectivity within it.