Statement
Réka Ritt Laklia is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in London. Her practice encompasses painting, VR, installation and photography. She uses motifs and materials, often imbued with folkloric elements, that emerge from her Hungarian cultural heritage. She alchemises her ancestral legacy of various crafts, including copper smithing and the intricate cellular patterns of folkloric embroideries, with the global cultural experience she gathered through travelling and living in many different countries. Her organic patterns are inspired by, but do not imitate, Hungarian folkloric motives. Instead, her art is the product of a compassionate and sensitive combination of critical thinking and respect for traditions.
"The creative process is to understand the narrative of my recollections, identifying the underlying patterns and dynamics that run across them and the parallel patterns and dynamics that run across society and culture. It is a ceremonial quest to find remedies for fractures in all levels of human experience and, in a symbolic manner, to perform curative corrections and adjustments, treating the artwork as a voodoo doll."
StateCountryUnited Kingdom
