Andrea Galano Toro & Sadrie Alves & Tereza Melková: Messages at the crossroads




Jedna Dva Tři Gallery
29. 07. 2024 19:00

Vstupné: dobrovolné
Entry: donation








messages at the crossroads:
Andrea Galano Toro, Sadrie Alves, Tereza Melková

30. 7. – 06. 9. 2024

Opening: 29. 7. 2024

Curator: Edita Štrajtová
Visual: Martin Czeller
Jedna Dva Tři Gallery Petrohradská 13, Prague 10


Messages at the crossroads will present works by Tereza Melková, Sadrie Alves, and Andrea Galano Toro as part of their residency at Petrohradská kolektiv during the summer months of 2024.

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Sadrie Alves develops a body of work that operates in the fields of visual arts, design and performance. The core of her practice departs from drawing as a symbolic action and as a catalyst for affective narratives and collaboration. Her work is informed by folklore, and the beings that inhabit them. Sadrie draws mainly from an oral archive of bastard songs and stories from the Brazilian soundscape. The story is a vessel through which she visits different temporalities to recreate and politicize them through a cross-disciplinary approach. Simultaneously, she is working on different collaborative projects that share in common an urgency and focus on multiplicity, undermined visual languages and so-called unreliable knowledges. Sadrie was born and raised in Brasília and is currently living in Antwerp. During the residency she will delve into the popular tale of the monstrous “Headless Mule”, which articulates hybrid identities, both intercultural and interspecies, as well as the suppression of feminine agency and colonial impositions. Whether associated with state power or subversive discourses, the horse is a symbolically charged figure that plays a role in many stories.
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Tereza Melková is based in Prague. Her practice is primarily focused on drawing, with elements of installation and work with textiles, particularly hand embroidery. The common denominator of her work is an interest in stories, symbolic frames and narratives that function as tools for understanding the contemporary world she is interested in the universality of certain motifs based on their reappearance across time, transformation, and slight shifts in meaning. She often develops motifs of transformation in her drawings and embroideries (human figures transforming into mythical figures, animals or natural elements) and explores it as a tool of emancipation, but also of a certain resignation to the human ambition to constantly grow and dominate as a species. Drawing works is the most immediate and natural tool of exploration and expression, and in Tereza's work it is further developed through hand embroidery, which combines meditative approach with certain dedication. One of the subject matters is also an interest in space and tension that arise between the worn garment/fashion (which in our time is so often defined by speed, consumption, exploitation) and its everyday use on the one hand, and the symbolism and laboriousness of the handembroidery on the other.
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Andrea Galano Toro is an artist, graphic designer, and researcher currently based in Barcelona. Andrea’s practice explores storytelling as a gesture to activate and enchant transformational experiences through her experimental audiovisual installations, graphic work, performances, workshops, and lectures. Her films and research have a record of speculating the voices of elements, landscapes, and more-than-human characters which in many ways, re-configure the heteronormative storytelling logics. Her focus on storytelling encompasses ecological narratives, animism, hybridity, magic, and dreams; which for her, re-enchant this world, open new worlds and allow for a regenerative narrative to birth in a society of rigidity and linearity. Her graphic work, which is not separate from her artist identity; is heavily based on materialising words and visual motifs that embody a narration. Her graphic language involves gestures such as ornaments, illustrations, photography, website design, and riso-printing. Within her collective called Cruda shared with her research and art collaborator Laila Saber Rodriguez, they facilitate experimental workshops, performance readings, and lectures. The duo explores their practice of spell-writing, monsters, hybrids, and shapeshifters. Artists in Residency Program of Petrohradská kolektiv is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU – NPO Funding Program.



Provoz kulturních aktivit Petrohradská kolektiv je v roce 2024 finančně podpořen Ministerstvem kultury ČR, Hlavním městem Praha a Městskou částí Prahy 10, Národním plánem obnovy ze zdrojů Evropské unie.

The production of the cultural activities of the Petrohradská kolektiv is financially supported in 2024 by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Capital city of Prague, and the Municipal District of Prague 10.