Hands Full of Fear is a form of textile sculpture with which the author examines the idea of alchemising fear, suppressed in the human body, through shapes, colours and repetition. By exploring herself through the meditational process of creation, the author searches for the roots of her own fears, the sensations she is feeling in her body. She thereby transfers the fear out of her body to newly created textile bodies – accumulated forms of stuffed textile sculptures that are literally filled with fear. Just like the Sun every day reveals what is hidden, giving it colour, life and new energy, the author through artistic creation sheds light on fears from the inside.
Nikolina Krstičević is a textile artist and graduate of Textile design at the Faculty of Textile Technology in Zagreb. She showed her work in various group exhibitions and had two solo shows. In her work, she explores the unconscious and the physicality of emotions, transferring it into sculptural forms; merging textile, sculpture and illustration.
