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.








© Emma Štěpánová, 2026
infoEmma 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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HIDE FROM “THEM”


concrete, metal,
velvet, wax,
190 x 95 x 95 cm
2024
What is fragility? What is the core of being fragile? Where does it come from? Where are the borders and the critical point when our memories and thoughts become fragile? How things could be so fragile? How could be thoughts be so fragile? How could be memories so fragile? When do we realize that something is fragile to us? It is possible to feel fragility of our own transformation into something strong? What does it feel like when we do realize it? What is our ideal state of mind when we accept our own fragility? How to get rid of our fragile forms? Or should we feel calm even if we feel fragile? Maybe yes. For me it is okay to feel fragile. 
    Because if we feel fragile, we can still feel our own strenght. We are dancing around our own fragility, trying to reach something more stable, thats gonna keep us on the point, where we won’t fall down into the fragile lake. But dont be afraid, be fragile, feel the tences, feel the moments when we realize, that we all are made of flesh and bones. We are so used to be powerfull and racional out there. Every day….