Ludmil Brantal

Lives and works in Czechia

Artist statement

My name is Ludmil Brantal, I am from the Czech Republic, and I study psychology at Palacký University in Olomouc. I am fascinated by exploring the human soul in every possible way and by trying to understand it. Art is a journey into my inner world, where I give space to my ideas, my unconscious, my hidden desires, anger, and the chaos that fills my mind. A part of my soul is present in every piece I create. My work often grows from my inner experiences, fears, and visions. In The Plastic Age, I explore one of my deepest fears through a catastrophic vision of a future in which humanity has destroyed the planet with plastic. I imagine a world where one soul suffers for all the generations that have contributed to the destruction of the Earth. The model is made from plastic, specifically garbage bags and surgical gloves, which represent human hands, the hands of each and every one of us, and our responsibility for what we create. The model became the central figure of a video that tells this horrifyingly realistic story. I later continued working with the footage and created my own version, making the story darker, more mysterious, and more ambiguous. Through this process, the original idea gradually transformed into Fragmentation, where the model became a distorted human figure composed of broken and disintegrating elements. The work shifts the focus from the destruction of the world to the destruction within the individual. In contrast, Mother of a Foreign World and...

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