Markéta Dlouhá is a Czech artist who focuses on personal stories and ecology through bookmaking, printmaking, poetry, drawing, embroidery, and light installations. Her strong connection to nature and interest in sociology and psychology manifests itself in semi-surrealist imagery akin to natural shapes, landscapes, animals, and water, and in her topics where she holds a light on memory, family, health, and relation to nature.
Her ecological approach to art involves upcycling and recycling materials to create her own materials, including making paper from old clothes, plant fibers, and old paper to create light installations from old and shaved linoleums. She also uses ecological printing colors and experiments with natural pigments which she collects from nature. Closing the waste loop in her art and using sustainable natural materials is an ongoing challenge and goal for her practice.
Markéta exhibited her work in various group shows and solo exhibitions in Japan, Poland, and the Czech Republic. Her ecological printmaking techniques and natural pigments resulted in several collaborations with artists and eco-friendly fashion brands. Currently, she is focusing on building her papermaking and graphics arts studio in the Czech Republic and taking part in art residencies.
Curator Zeren Oruc
