Tessa Hollman-Gustin

Tessa Hollman-Gustin is the second international resident at PRÁM, where she will be staying during June and July. Her solo exhibition will open with a vernissage on July 15 at 6 PM, curated by Šárka Koudelová.

Tessa Hollman-Gustin (*1993, Paris) is a member of the artist-run space ChezKit in Pantin, France. After graduating with honours from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018, she spent a year at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg.

In 2024, she curated the group exhibition Good Morning Hammer at ChezKit in Paris, which explored the connection between sentimentality and industrial objects.

Fascinated by the emotions people develop toward the objects that surround them, she has spent several years creating sculptures that reveal the narrative potential of everyday items. In her practice, she draws upon the stories and histories embedded in these objects.

She is particularly drawn to objects that are omnipresent in daily life, yet overlooked due to their familiarity. Each selected item becomes the subject of research and investigation, resulting in sculptural forms that encapsulate the accumulated knowledge—whether documentary, personal, or fictional.

Through a combination of research, sculpture, and writing, she seeks to understand the moments in which we project affection and emotion onto objects, examining the memorial, affective, fetishistic, sociological, and anthropological layers of our material culture.

Her work is informed by the concept of an “ecology of the object,” which reflects on how things shape our lives, environments, movements, imaginations, and ultimately, our ways of thinking.

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Website : https://tessa-gustin.com