CARTE BLANCHE
Lucia Sceranková presents two triptychs in her exhibition Carte Blanche. Named after the painting by René Magritte, Carte Blanche is also the title for one of her films. Her aesthetic is that of the naive, using handmade, low tech props to create the effects in her work.
- This exhibition presents a collection of my latest work.00:00:16.366
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- It is called Carte Blanche.00:00:23.269
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- The title refers to a painting by René Magritte00:00:29.300
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- that inspired one of my videos exhibited here.00:00:36.702
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- The title itself has many meanings00:00:45.181
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- which is the reason why I got interested in it.00:00:50.067
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- It can either mean freedom of doing, creation00:00:57.565
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- or in medieval novel it could mean a romantic proposal.00:01:01.267
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- Otherwise it means an empty card.00:01:07.448
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- It can be a blank cheque that is already signed00:01:11.010
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- and you can fill in any sum you like.00:01:14.262
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- All works are connected to balladic a motif.00:01:17.795
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- There are balladic symbols, I like working with them,00:01:22.871
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- with some pathos or naivité.00:01:27.358
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- I present here two triptychs,00:01:54.331
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- one of photographs and the other of videos.00:01:59.007
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- I perceive the videos as cycled balads,00:02:05.568
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- video-images that related to each other, but they do not create an epic story.00:02:07.857
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- They are more fragments of a story, symbolic pictures.00:02:14.269
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- For me it is important that I do not adjust them digitally.00:02:19.025
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- I work with props, paper props, constructing little theatres.00:02:27.103
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- Each picture contains a non-digital effect.00:02:34.980
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- In this way, I attempt to create an atmosphere.00:02:45.237