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The body is a landscape both lowland and mountainous, hospitable and potentially dangerous. We coexist with the body in the same way as we do with the land or the landscape, whether we want to or not. The landscape and the body are intimately connected to our identity, our roots. As idiotic as the comparison of the body to the landscape is, the title of the exhibition has another meaning, and that is the edge in the sense of margin or extremity. The edge of the body is therefore also the border, the edge of corporeality. And it is this duality that characterises the work of Sara Wollasch, a native of Opava, who is currently completing her studies at the Brno Academy of Fine Arts. Her exploration of corporeality began in Lenka Klodová's Body Design Studio, where the now well-known performance duo NEWkus was created. There, together with Barbora Smékalová (now Schreier), they experimented with the possibilities of body-oriented visual performance in conjunction with kitsch, stereotypes and trash aesthetics. After this experience, Wollasch decided to switch to a more permanent medium, sculpture and installation work, which she studies with Jan Ambrůz at the Atelier of Sculpture 2. The exhibition at the Hauerova 4 Gallery will present both main positions of the artist. The visitor will be acquainted with the documentation of performances that have been created during NEWkus' six-year existence, as well as artist´s actual sculptural work. In the exhibition, the artist presents different positions of working with material: whether it is fragile glass casts, plaster casts of the body combined with human hair in a symbolic nest (complete with gradually rusting armature) or an installation of a bed with a mold of a sexual act.