My Memory is Nothing But Sorrow
The exhibition My Memory is Nothing But Sorrow creates a dialogue between the works of two artists from different generations: Anna Zemánková (1908-1986) and Dominik Adamec (born 1995).
In the series presented at Špalíček, Adamec indirectly responds to Zemánková’s legacy by exploring the fragility of life, drawing parallels between extinct species and the organic, surreal forms present in Zemánková’s works.
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.