The exhibition project Scars and Other Fragments that took place in Atelier Josefa Sudka is based on the author’s personal experience with queer adolescence and the reworking of trauma. Through work with personal photographs, their transfer to leather and textiles, and hand-stitching, he explores how one’s own past can be dealt with through material and the repeated gesture of care. The multimedia spatial installation moves on the border of personal gesture and broader experience, offering the audience a sensitive space to reflect on their own memory traces.

The installation Fracture of the Sun reflects on the author’s lived experience with queer adolescence and reconciling with past traumatic experiences. The work tells a story about queer shame, isolation, and escapism. The work presents fragments of a personal archive and detailed craftwork with diverse materials. Kubeš works with various photo printing techniques on textiles and leather and hand embroidery, which, in object and costume elements, evoke the feeling of loss, wear and tear and temporality. The metal structure symbolizing the wardrobe serves as a metaphor for hiding and preserving memories.