Tereza Stehlíková is an artist working predominantly with the moving image, alongside animation, photography, illustration and writing. Her work is primarily concerned with visual and tactile perception and how our sensual awareness might be heightened, in order to reveal a richer, more insightful and poetic vision of the world and its possibilities.
" What then was life? It was warmth, the warmth generated by a form-preserving instability,
a fever of matter, which accompanied the process of ceaseless decay and repair of albumen molecules
that were too impossibly complicated, too impossibly ingenious in structure.
It was the existence of the actually impossible-to-exist, of half-sweet, half-painful balancing,
or scarcely balancing, in this restricted and feverish process of decay and renewal,
upon the point of existence.
It was not matter and it was not spirit, but something between the two,
a phenomenon conveyed by matter, like the rainbow on the waterfall, and like the flame."
(Thomas Mann, Magic Mountain)
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