5/8 – 14/8 2021
Galerie Abstract Project | Paris | France
This exhibition presents the work of Czech artist Eva Francová, whose practice is grounded in geometric and mathematical principles while remaining deeply connected to the material realities of everyday life. Her work begins with common, often overlooked materials — elements that surround us in daily environments — and reconfigures them within disciplined compositional systems. Through this process of transformation, the ordinary acquires a new semantic and spatial resonance.
Francová’s artistic language is defined by reduction. She pursues the simplest and most uncompromised expression, stripping away excess in order to reveal structural clarity. Geometry in her work is neither ornamental nor doctrinaire; it functions as a framework through which material presence is ordered, measured and recalibrated. Lines, intervals and proportional relationships emerge from careful observation and deliberate construction, producing works that appear austere yet carry a quiet intensity.
The mathematical undercurrent of her practice does not result in rigidity. On the contrary, her compositions maintain a tactile sensibility. Surfaces often retain the memory of their material origin, creating a dialogue between precision and imperfection. This balance between rational structure and physical immediacy allows her works to oscillate between object and image, between constructed order and lived experience.
Her background in fine arts education and her longstanding engagement with teaching have reinforced a methodical and research-oriented approach. The recognition she has received — including major awards at the OSTEN Biennial of Drawing — underscores the originality with which she navigates the field of contemporary geometric abstraction. Yet her work avoids spectacle; it invites sustained viewing and rewards attention to nuance.
Presented together, the works articulate a coherent investigation into how minimal means can generate maximum conceptual clarity. By reinterpreting familiar materials through geometric logic, Francová proposes that purity in art is not the elimination of reality, but its reorganization. The resulting forms do not seek complexity for its own sake; they demonstrate how disciplined simplicity can open space for reflection, concentration and perceptual refinement.