Thoughts in Circles
While in her previous projects Kleinhamplová mapped nooks of unclear desire, the notion of her current work is more concrete. The subject of her analysis is homo consumericus and the perverse instinct he embodies.Situations filled with the displaced, yet omnipresent boisterousness of consumerism, reveal its traumatic essence through self-portraits and simple installations.
- You can find here a picture of a group of lawyers.00:00:25.925
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- The photo is a reconstruction of a spiritistic photo from the twenties.00:00:34.461
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- It is a photo of a spiritistic séance.00:00:39.980
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- Also, you can find here two textile stands00:00:44.314
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- on which one hundred white shirts are placed.00:00:46.588
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- You can take those shirts.00:00:50.451
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- It is a take-away installation.00:00:54.018
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- Each visitor can freely decide whether he takes the shirt or not.00:00:57.687
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- For me, it is a symbol of the fact whether we´ll participate in the system00:01:04.718
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- because the shirt represents a dead case without a body.00:01:13.190
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- It is a kind of a spirit.00:01:21.479
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- It is a similar situation to the one which is depicted by the photo.00:01:24.218
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- The shirts are placed on the textile stands in a circle00:01:29.814
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- creating so an eternal line or crowd00:01:34.178
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- which it is difficult to get off.00:01:40.396
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- The one who takes the shirt, helps the spirit to be revived.00:01:46.102
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- And also he participates in the spiritistic séance.00:01:58.179
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- At the same time you can find here belt ways.00:02:03.778
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- They can be pulled out so they create a passage.00:02:09.103
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- They complicate the access to the installation.00:02:17.043
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- Because we have to walk longer way than if there were no belts.00:02:22.616
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- Filip Kudrnáč presents here his painting.00:02:44.290
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- It is my portrait from a cycle called "Butterflies".00:02:49.478
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- It is an existing series of pictures with naked women with butterfly´s wings.00:02:57.102
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- It is typical of him.00:03:07.152
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- I let him paint me like this. It is instead of a traditional self portrait00:03:10.684
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- I usually deal with.00:03:18.583
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- For me, the painting is a key for understanding of the exhibition.00:03:23.262