Patrícia Šichmanová Lakeline

Virtual reality modelling, digital tracing, 3D printing, CNC and laser cutting are techniques integral in the production of Patrícia’s new works. After a digital pre-phase, she casts forms in glass or metal through a controlled process where fluid, luminous mass is transformed into solid and opaque form.

Landscapes and natural phenomena are main starting points for the artist. The installation in Hordaland Kunstsenter’s project space is comprised of a large series of works based around abstracted cartographic outlines of lakes. Working with the contours of such water surfaces and looking at lakes from a birds-eye point of view, Patricia creates a suggestion of  what is hiding underneath. 

The sculptural objects and VR simulation presented in Lakeline compose a landscape in themselves, one of abstract shapes in a wide variety of colours and consistencies – exploring how form, color, and texture can evoke the translucency, plasticity, and ephemerality that glass and water have in common.

The VR works in the exhibition are made in collaboration with Dávid Kurinec. 

Patrícia Sichmanová grew up in Bratislava, Slovakia, where she completed her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in 2017. In the following years, while researching the possibilities of glass, she also explored metal work at HSN in Norway and glass design at Häme University of Applied Sciences i Finland. Nature, Nordic landscape and natural phenomena have a strong influence on her work.