The earth has music for those who listen :
with works by Anna Zemánková
The gallery loaned four works by Czech artist to the Sapling Gallery on the occasion of the group show The Earth has music for those who listen, on view in the gallery’s London space from September 16 to October 6, 2022
The exhibition aims to uncover some of the ways in which living organisms, from plants to humans, participate in a constantly evolving system of shared life. It will focus on the listening of the universal harmony that humans have long ignored, preferring to turn away from it to promote the progress of their own species.
Curated by Claudia Cheng, with artworks by Cecilia Fiona, Cecilia Granara, Yulia Iosilzon, Gal Schindler and Salomé Wu.
It was at the beginning of the 1960s that this humble Moravian woman began creating works, strikingly responding to impulses from the depths. At dawn, she would mentally gather flowers “that grow nowhere else,” making them emerge from the paper.
Anna Zemánková is an established figure of outsider art, to the point that she was honored in 2013 at the Venice Biennale before a significant collection of her works joined the collections of the Centre Pompidou, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Mumok.
In 2023, the gallery presented her in a solo show at Art Basel Paris, and the following year Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the Venice Biennale, exhibited a group of her works. In 2026, the Hermès Corporate Foundation in Brussels subsequently presented eight of her drawings.