BEST DREAMSCAPER

I'm really interested in creating my own architecture, rather than working within a historical framework,' says Czech artist Klára Hosnedlová, on the eve of her first exhibition at London's White Cube gallery.

- HANNAH SILVER

'If you are creating a new world, it's much more difficult, because everything has to be a completely new visualisation.'

Throughout her career, Hosnedlová has built entirely new landscapes, interweaving architectural elements with expansive embroideries, performances and sculptures, which together form vast installations. In her richly immersive worlds, Hosnedlová is drawn to both natural materials – flax, hemp, sand - as well as colder forms such as glass, concrete and metal, which shape mythical new realities. Juxtapositions, between the decaying and the permanent, the handcrafted and the machined, are celebrated.

For Hosnedlová, it is essential that the environments are welcoming. 'I don't come from an artistic family, so it is important for me to create a world that is more familiar. I love to be able to speak to those who have never been in a museum. I'm lucky that I can still speak through quite a realistic language, which is embroidery - you can see what it's like in your hands. It is not abstract.'