Au-delà.
Rituals for a new world
The gallery has loaned to Lafayette Anticipations artworks by Czech artist Anna Zemánková for the exhibition Beyond. Rituals for a New World, which will be held there from February 15 to May 14, 2023.
The group show brings together some twenty artists of all generations, transforming the space into an initiatory journey marked by works evoking archaic and contemporary rituals, both individual and collective. It is ceremonies, gestures, objects, sounds and crafts related to the energy of the Earth and the living that are then presented.
Curated by Agnes Gryczkowska.
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.