Lucie Rosenfeldová

Lucie Rosenfeldová (*1986) is a Prague based artist and teacher. In her practice, she mainly works with experimental documentaries based on artistic research. Through her films, she relates to questions about the changing nature of the relationship between representation and the body. She currently does research on embodied memory and the possibilities of its scientific and artistic representation. Her work has been presented to both international and domestic audiences in a number of film screenings and exhibition projects. She is the winner of the main prize of the Other Visions – PAF Olomouc (2016).

Lucie Rosenfeldová studied at the Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague in the painting studio of Jiří Černický, then in the sculpture studio of Dominik Lang and Edith Jeřábková. During her studies she was a member of the Studio without a master. 

If we try to look at medical images as specific memories of the bodies of participants in a medical examination or procedure, we find ourselves in a field of troublesome identification. What happens when bodies meet their mismatched representation? How do cultural, social and political actors enter into this difficult “calibration of body memory” (Riva, 2018)? The artistic research Touch-loss explores the possibilities of the image to convey events of the body associated with the history of medicine (specifically, reproductive medicine and gynecology), in such a way that the body memory of its participants is not opposed. Whereas the relationship between body and memory is conceptualized mainly through the ideas of new materialism, posthumanism and experimental neuroscience. In its artistic output, the research focuses on creating a digital (moving) image methodology that corresponds to such a concept of memory and supports its performativity.