CGD

Focusing on digital sculpting, Helena Lukášová elaborates on the relationship between human beings and digital media in her work. She is primarily interested in examining the confrontation between manual and mechanical work, as well as issues related to methods of representation in the digital world. She often uses 3D printing with ease in her work while also keeping a certain remove from it. What she is at odds with is not technology itself but the consequences of digital reality. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, she currently resides in Brno. Her digital art is on display in European and American galleries. You Are What You Wish For is a collection of 3D-printed jewellery and the result of her second collaboration with fashion designer Denisa Nová. Their first collaboration saw them design expressive face masks inspired by corals for S/S 2014. And Helena's latest set of anthropomorphous objects complements Denisa Nová's collection for A/W 2015/2016, responding to the theme of a clothing line based on recycled vintage Persian lamb coats. Here, both clothes and jewellery explore ways of preserving historic materials and memory as a way of passing them on to future generations. The collection premiered in the spring at a fashion show during MBPFW 2015 at ZIBA and is inspired by Latin American milagros – folk charms used for making dreams come true.

Jewellery and shoe wedges – in the form of feet, hands, mouths and ears recall holy relics with their gold colour evoking baroque churches. They also represent replicas of the body parts of Helena Lukášová's family members, as depicted using a 3D scanner and photogrammetry.

Veronika Ruppert