Abstract
The text reflects on the international exhibition fragilités, which took place at the Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague (20 October 2022 - 8 January 2023, curated by Elena Sorokina and Silvia Van Espen). The project explores human fragility and vulnerability in ambivalent and ambiguous interpretations.
The article focuses on the sub-themes of the exhibition that speak to the relationship of man to (post)humanism, nature and its ecosystems, and current and recent crises strongly questioning fragility as weakness. The author of the text pays special attention to prominent women artists: Maria Bartusz, Alina Szapocznikow, Louise Bourgeois and Geta Brătescu.
Author looks at their work through the prism of visual art of the second half of the 20th century, reflecting intimate and universal human themes in the form of an apt metaphor of the possible paradoxes of the artificially set relationship between man and nature.