EMMA ŠTĚPÁNOVÁ

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ZODIAC I & 2
EXXON VALDEZ-OIL SPILL-PELECANUS CRISPUS
INTAGLIO SERIES
HIDE FROM “THEM”
INSIDE & OUT
WHAT IS THE SPACE OF NIGHTMARES
AND DREAMS ACTUALLY MADE OF?
UNTITLED (ENCAUSTIC)
IN THE BODY OF A CREATURE
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REM HIVE – REM SCAPE

site – specific installation
beeswax, gauze, metal wire
2026

REM HIVE – REM SCAPE is a monumental site-specific installation that represents the materialized space of the subconscious. The artist perceives it as a constantly evolving archive composed of dreams, memories, emotions, and experiences that accumulate and expand over the course of a lifetime. She translates this immaterial space into a system of suspended panels made of beeswax and gauze, whose fragility, translucence, and mutability allude to the very nature of dreaming.

The installation appears as a single organic whole, which, upon closer inspection, breaks down into individual layers—records of dreams and traces of the subconscious. Dreams are not depicted here through specific images, but are present through the material, space, and atmosphere. Beeswax and gauze, materials associated with protection, healing, and preservation, become a metaphor for caring for the fragile contents of the human mind.

Through its open, permeable space and the characteristic scent of wax, the installation opens up a field for individual imagination and associations. The viewer enters a landscape oscillating between dream and reality, where memory, the subconscious, and the shifting layers of personal experience intertwine.

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Emma Štěpánová is a multidisciplinary artist based in Prague, Czech Republic. In her work she deals with the relationship and boundaries between consciousness and the subconscious, the motifs of dreams and nightmares, but also environmental themes related to the devastation of aquatic ecosystems. When exploring the changing nuances of these interactions, she focuses on both existence of these matters and their extinction. During her internship at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Dresden Štěpánová developed her interest in working with beeswax – medium that offers both technological and expressive possibilities. She is currently focusing her work around space and how it can become an autonomous element of the work, searching for ways in which materials and their boundaries can be pushed in their natural form.

EMMA ŠTĚPÁNOVÁ
stepanova.em@seznam.cz
@emma__stepanova

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