Radka Bodzewicz: FAUST

Radka Bodzewicz's artistic practice draws on literary inspiration—poetry, prose, and philosophical texts. The timeless themes she discovers in literature are transformed into extensive visual cycles that combine classical artistic techniques with new technologies.

In recent years, she has worked with canonical works of world literature: Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, and Mircea Eliade's essay The Myth of Eternal Return. For her exhibition at DOX, she has chosen to engage with Goethe's Faust.

Bodzewicz understands the story of Doctor Faust as an expression of Jung's principle of archetypes of human desire—motifs that drive human destinies. Faust thus becomes an embodiment of stories about the longing for knowledge, love, power, and fame, about transgressing the boundaries of the possible, and about the irreversibility of one's own decisions and pacts with the devil.

RADKA BODZEWICZ (born 1991) is a graduate of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts (Graphics II studio under Vladimir Kokolia and Sculpture II studio under Jindřich Zeithammla, 2017). During her studies, she completed an internship at Robert Gordon University – Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen (2016) and in 2018 was a finalist for the Leinemann-Stiftung für Bildung und Kunst Award. In her work, she expands classical artistic techniques with new technologies such as virtual reality, holographic imagery, and 3D printing. Her works have been presented in solo exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad.