About me
∆rtist & ∆nthropologist ~ creating art & rituals.
My name is Lucie Remešová, but over a 20 years ago I’ve got the (artistic) nickname of Lusi Lu, under which I am working and creating.
I’m focusing predominantly on the stories of motherhood, spirituality and sexuality and my art features almost exclusively female characters who embody them.
I am also creating commissioned ritualistic artworks, that can have therapeutical effect and help healing traumas, connected especially with the experience of baby loss or death in general. My art exhibitions are sometimes also kind of psychomagical acts with wider message and overlap into spiritual~ritualistic experience. This was the case especially with my ongoing art exhibition series “MotherHood“.
I exhibited besides Czechia also in Peru, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Germany and many more… (as listed here).
I am using wide combination of techniques and experimenting with different kind of paints, pens and substances on photograph, canvas (or any kind of suitable surface).
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I finished anthropology doctorate at the Charles University in Prague. My anthropological education very deeply influences my artistic expression and intersection with rituals, like the farewell ritual, swaddling “rebozo” ritual etc.
I am also just starting dasein psychotherapy training, which will complement my complex ritualist-artistic work.
I conducted fieldworks in Morocco and in Peru, where I also lived and worked for several years as a tour guide for travel agency Alvarez. I am currently working again as a tour guide, besides Peru also at Costa Rica.
In years 2020 – 2023 I was also an art director at Beseder Gallery, where I curated and organized art exhibitions and wide range of cultural events, including the art exhibition for the 80th birthday of academical sculptor Kurt Gebauer, two art exhibitions of Otto Placht in cooperation with the Peruvian embassy and many more.
I also cooperate with care service Zůstat spolu doma (stay together at home) as consultant and canis-felino therapist with my animals.
Collaborations
- Design for the bottles of Czech craft beer Kolčavka in 2021 – for the 200 years of Peruvian independence.
- Design for the T-shirts and promo materials of travel agency Alvarez in 2020.
- Design for the bottles of Peruvian craft beer Barbarian in 2017.
- Movie poster for Czech crime comedy „Not now, Peaches“ by Lukas Bulava, released in 2015.
- Design for Union Snowboard bindings in 2014.
- Designs and cooperation with Peruvian surfboard company JCH surfboards in 2009-2012.
- Designs for Japanese clothing company Tcollector, with my own brand Ex-lusi-vE since 2008.
- Book illustrations: “Růže“ by Natalie Kocab in 2003.
Owners and Models
My artworks float all around the world with owners like American skateboarder Tony Hawk, American Jackass creator and editor-in-chief of Big Brother skateboarding magazine Dave Carnie; American singer John Connor (Dog Eat Dog); American former skateboarder and musician Matt Hensley (Flogging Molly); American pro-surfer Sean Poynter; Argentinian singer and songwriter Carlos Rodríguez (Boom Boom Kid); Brazilian punk singer DMNT (Juventude Maldita); Spanish photographer Jorge Algaba; British anthropologist Karen O’Reilly; Peruvian singer Ysabel Omega; Czech musician Moimir Papalescu; Czech musician, singer and songwriter Filip Vondrášek (Fast Food Orchestra); Czech legendary musician Ivo Pospíšil (Garáž) and many more… (see the gallery).
My models include amazing women like singer Mariana Wesley (ex Prague Ska Conspiracy, Blastersex), girls of punk band Sour Bitch and ska band Larika, singer and writer Natalie Kocab, Mexican singer and medicine woman Margarida „La Malinche“ Arrocha, Israeli pianist Marina Kantor, naturopath Gabriela Tuatti, Canadian artist Jessica Serran and many more…