March 21 – May 17, 2026
CENTQUATRE-PARIS, 5 Rue Curial, Paris, France
Alžběta Drcmánková, a student of the Studio of Textile at UMPRUM, is presenting her project at the festival of young European photography Cirkulation(s). She is exhibiting a series of photographs from her project “After the Decay of Memory, Only a Glassy Echo Remains“.
“After the Decay of Memory, Only a Glassy Echo Remains“ series explores the contemporary urge to escape the modern world into archetypal landscapes — spaces recalling the cave’s refuge and a longing to reconnect with nature and cyclical time. Embroidery with seed beads becomes a tactile extension of photography: the digital image is slowly transformed through a precise, repetitive process, decomposing bead by bead until it disintegrates.
After years of working with photography, she now allows a “mistake” — a visual glitch — as a fertile element. Initially guided by a measured grid, the process slows, attention drifts, and intuition takes over. Threads trace the flow of time — the endlessness of process and of the captured moment. Embroidery thus becomes both technique and meditation on the fragmentation of image, memory, and meaning.
In the 16th edition of this juried exhibition, a total of 26 artists from 15 European countries will be presented.
Special thanks to the Studio of Textile at UMPRUM, Anežka Svobodová, Thea Chatrná, Šimon Leffler, Tereza Fagulcová, and Markéta Volková.
The exhibition is realized with the support of the Czech Centre in Paris.
