[...] Magdalena Jetelová's sculptures take their cue from very basic items from the everyday environment: tables, chairs, stairs. Reproducing these in the form of large, sometimes gigantic, roughly worked wooden objects, she monumentalizes and distorts their shapes, thus reducing to absurdity the notion of their original (and still implicit) function. Here chairs begin to pace about; her stairs seem to tumble into a void; and her houses are patently uninhabitable. In Prague in the 1970s Jetelová was part of a small avant-garde that was forced to exhibit in private spaces, studios or backyards, or in the countryside. Since this time her sculptures have always been related to space in as far as she reacts in each case to the proposed or given setting. Through physical separation and the introduction of projected light, she overcomes spatial boundaries and opens up enclosed forms. Since 1986 she has experimented with outdoor light and laser projection. In 1986 she projected a compact ray of light in the form of a chair into a forest at night, thus creating the illusion of a sculpture made out of light and wood. In 1992, in her »Iceland Project«, she used a laser beam to render visible the geological boundary between Europe and America. Alongside drawings and sketches, the photographic documentation of projects and performance pieces is an integral part of her work. 

https://zkm.de/en/person/magdalena-jetelova (19.11.2021)