From 15–20 December, visual artist and tattoo practitioner Sarah Dubná will develop a two-part work at RezGauche that connects collective intervention, tattoo methods and painting.

Her research asks: what if wounding is not destruction but method – and loss a condition of transformation? She works with stinging and scratching as two registers of one method across skin, wall and canvas.

During a two-day workshop, a found object will be used as a shared surface for collective scratching: together with participants, Sarah will mark and carve into it, treating scratching as both minor damage and a form of drawing. In the same workshop, participants will also make  drawings that are transferred onto a large canvas using purple tattoo stencil paper, adapting a technique from tattoo studios to work on canvas.

After the workshop, Sarah will cut, sew and combine the stencilled canvas with her own scratched canvas, so that participants’ traces and her gestures are literally stitched together into one piece.

The residency will end with a one-day exhibition, showing the scratched object and the reworked canvas.

Workshop dates: Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th December, from 2-6pm

One-day exhibition with opening:  Saturday 20 December.: exhibition open: 2-7pm, opening: 5-7pm

Bio

Sarah Dubná (b. 1993) is a visual artist and tattoo practitioner based in Prague. Her work probes what lies beneath surfaces—paper, walls, found textiles, and human skin—using gestures of poking, scratching, and perforation to test the line between destruction and healing.  She moves between visual art, beekeeping, and tattoo communities, bringing these worlds into dialogue in exhibitions in Czechia and Berlin and in publications such as PokePokePoke (2020, 2022).  She is currently a PhD candidate at UMPRUM, developing the practice-led project Stinging as a Radical Mode of Storytelling, focused on consent-accountable incision across skin, wall, and textile and on translocal guest-spot networks as infrastructures of care.

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