Adriana Czernin
…deviations…
Adriana Czernin began her artistic career with drawings and videos that can be described as belonging to the feminist tradition in art. In 2005–2006, she added to the female figures in her drawings a mashrabiya – an ornamental screen in Arabic architecture used as a window covering, designed to shield the domestic space from the public gaze. In 2014, she was invited by MAK, the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, to work with the original elements of an ornament from a thirteenth-century mosque in Cairo. It is then that Czernin discovered the beauty and perpetuity of this, at first glance, integral and sacrosanct system.
The catalogue has been published on the occasion of Adriana Czernin’s exhibition at Structura Gallery, Sofia, December 2017 – January 2018.
The exhibition and catalogue are supported by Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, Austrian Embassy Sofia, Das Land Steiermark.
Including an essays by Maria Vassileva and Adriana Czernin.
€ 18
