The Czech artist Anna Hulačová (b. 1984 in Sušice, lives and works in Klučov, Czech Republic) uses traditional techniques to create sculptures and installations that illustrate the fundamental dichotomies between nature and industry, localism and globalism, utopia and dystopia. Oscillating between abstraction and figuration, the formal vocabulary of her retro-futuristic works draws on a vast repertoire ranging from Czech folklore to brutalist architecture.
In Harvest, the artist explores recurring themes in her work related to modernisation and industrialisation as the dominant ideological framework for contemporary agricultural practices and our relationships with the animal world. This situation is epitomised by these endangered species of field birds, who find themselves prisoners of the environment on which their very survival depends.
