Nena Čermák

Material-hybrid worlds, cyborgs and transformation
Nena Čermák is an interdisciplinary artist whose installations, textiles and objects connect recycled fabrics with artificial materials like fibreglass, epoxy resin, latex, polyurethane; merging human, animal, machine and plant forms.
Her own manifesto describes a “COSMILUTION” universe: evolution, revolution, emancipation, solution—
creating new worlds. This is a very direct engagement with speculative futures and surreal ontologies. Her work divides the familiar self, the familiar body into machine-organism hybrids. The surreal aesthetics here rest in the transmutation of materials and forms: textile threads become circuits, organs become synthetic. The uncanny comes when the viewer confronts that mixture of the organic and the artificial—of recycled cloth and epoxy resin—which unsettles our sense of taxonomy. Čermák’s practice stands at the intersection of art, technology, sustainability and identity. The surreal emerges through this hybridity: what does it mean to be human if fabric, machine and plant can merge? Her aesthetic invites a re- visioning of the body and its environments.