Although Anna Hulačová’s art has always been informed by folklore and myth, it grapples with very contemporary questions. As one spends time with her work, its self-contradictory aspect fades, and it begins to speak of a present-day menace and, even more forcefully, a dystopian future.

“Jedlý, Krásný, Nezkrotný” (Edible, Beautiful, Untamed), the artist’s recent presentation of six untitled sculptures, all 2022, was a good example of how this happens. Entering the gallery, the visitor could only be baffled: What to make of these enormous, brash, lumbering, vaguely archaic forms? There was something