Anatomical [an approximation] an exhibition by Lilian Ptacek

The Scotsman

GLASGOW. Glasgow Project Room First Floor Trongate 103 G1 5HD  EXHIBITION -  Artist, Lilian Ptáček at her exhibition Anatomical [an approximation] at Glasgow Project Room.  Exhibition runs Friday 2 – Sunday 11 August 2024 ‘Anatomical [an approximation]’ is an exhibition by Lilian Ptáček that situates the intimate, personal and sensuous aspects of corporeal reality in an imposing, urban setting. This exhibition explores how subtle and not-so-subtle strategies of urban design Influence human experiences in cities. This work emerges from an ongoing practice that reflects on the daily demands of city-living. In response to transient locations encountered by the artist on regular commutes, this installation focuses on the slick, seamless design of business districts, like Glasgow’s International Financial Services District, where anonymity is coded into spatial interactions. These sites, built with a systematic logic, are at odds with the curious dynamics of experiencing the world through the body, as a fleshy form motivated by desires and needs. Comprising ceramics, printmaking and metal-work the installation explores the interplay between hard and soft, clumsy and serious, public and private. ‘Anatomical [an approximation]’ addresses the tension between rigid urban planning and the impromptu and fluid emergence of cities. Glasgow Project Room is accessed through a step-free door from Trongate and a lift to the first floor. Generously supported by Hope Scott Trust Glasgow Project Room First Floor Trongate 103 G1 5HD Opening hours Thu & Fri 12 - 5 pm Sat - Sun 12 - 6 pm Closed: Mon, Tue, W

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00:00My name is Lilian Ptacek and I'm an artist based in Glasgow.

00:26We're standing in my exhibition here which is titled Anatomical and

00:30Approximation. I've been working for the past two years and studying on my

00:34master's program actually in Rotterdam and I've been thinking a lot about

00:37different cities that I've lived in. So I lived in Glasgow for 11 years and grew

00:44up in London so I was thinking about my kind of teenage memories growing up in a

00:48very urban environment and the daily demands of living in a city and how that

00:54kind of brought me to think a lot about different types of urban design and

00:59what I kind of come to understand as sort of a rigid systematic logic that

01:04is built into some cities but then also at the same time there's this kind of

01:09natural fluid emergence that happens in cities where things just kind of come

01:14about and that also brings out certain types of strange oddities in

01:20cities so it's kind of exploring these two dynamics or the tension between

01:23these two. I used to work a lot in printmaking actually here at the Glasgow

01:27Print Studios for many years and I also kind of branched out in my master's into

01:32metalwork so these are large metal structures in the installation that

01:37looks a lot of kind of structures that you would find in cities so in

01:42particular I'm really interested in business districts and the kind of

01:45rigidity of the structures and the design of the architecture of those

01:48quite slick environments and so that's been explored through the metal work

01:54that I created using welding techniques then there's also kind of prosaic or

01:58kind of rudimentary processes where I've started using cardboard a lot in my

02:01practice so there's kind of incorporating concrete and different

02:05surface materials into cardboard structures and then there's also ceramic

02:08forms so I work with ceramics and there's kind of quite small ceramic

02:12pieces and I've spent a lot of time developing different techniques to

02:15render the surface of them so working with different glazing techniques to

02:19create either really glassy or wet surfaces and this is where I'm really

02:22exploring the kind of bodily qualities in the ceramic works and the kind of

02:26fluidity that you can have with working with ceramics.

02:29Anatomical and approximation. Thursday the 1st of August and runs until the 11th

02:34of August at the Glasgow Project Rooms.

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