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Superhairdryer

2006

sculpture, epoxy, 160 × 60 cm

purchased in 2025

Over the past two decades, the pace of life has accelerated dramatically. Society is locked into an algorithmic cycle of over-consumption and over-performance. This accelerated pace, which is directly proportional to the speed of computer operations, compels us towards superficial consumption and permanent flexibility. The pressure to perform at work generates purchasing power and a life of excess. Already in 2006, Šárka Mikesková transformed this almost dystopian commentary on the materialism of contemporary humanity into an epoxy sculpture in which the upper body, including the head, is transmuted into a powerful hairdryer.

MIKESKOVÁ ŠÁRKA

(1977) Sculptor, creator of three-dimensional objects and installations. In 2001 she graduated from the Art Department at the University of Ostrava’s Education Faculty (now the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music), having studied at Mario Kotrba’s sculpture studio. She is a teacher of ceramic design at a secondary art school in Ostrava. Her works have been featured in group exhibitions since 2000. Her first solo exhibition was in 2003, in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm. Her works are regularly displayed as part of Ostrava’s “Kukačka” festival (a platform for presenting contemporary art in a non-gallery environment, in public spaces). She has participated in a range of sculpture competitions, including competitions for the forecourt of the Ostrava Gallery of Fine Arts (2004), Ostrava’s central square (for a work commemorating the legacy of Czechoslovakia’s first President T. G. Masaryk, 2011), and the Holocaust Memorial in Brno (2012). She is a long-time collaborator with the “For A Beautiful Ostrava” association, and she regularly participates in activities run by the Fiducia club and bookstore. Her works include a glass statue for the Moravian-Silesian Region’s Amber Awards, as well as several pieces displayed in public places, such as several memorial plaques in Ostrava (commemorating local cultural figures including Eva Vláhová, Jaromír and Dolores Šavrda or Karel Biňovec, as well as a plaque for a renovated sculpture by Václav Uruba), the sculptures The Spirit of Hlubina at Lower Vítkovice, and the bust of the ballet dancer and choreographer Emerich Gabzdyl in the foyer of Ostrava’s Antonín Dvořák Theatre.
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