Home – Naive melody
The author graduated from University of Fine Arts in Bratislava, where she studied first the photography (Department of Photography and New Media) and later she proceeded to the studio of wider range of media work +-XXI of Daniel Fischer. Zuzana Kmeťová works with clear and minimalistic visual language in photographic sets. There is a strong subject matter in the prominence of her work interpreted by an expressive author´s gesture. The motives of these sets are not based on complex subjects, but rather on very trivial situations and facts seen with a striking moment making it exceptional. She focused on the moment and conveys it to the spectator. In the master´s theses Home or a Naïve Melody she deals with the problem of memory. She returns to very subtle and ephemeral past experiences through various shots. These are banal moments which usually do not appear on family photographs. She calls for the silent participation of spectators by the form of photography and object which make them realize their own banal moments, facts of the past. Similarly to other author´s sets, these are little personal stories “mostly meaningless, intuitive, but at the same essential for my searching”.
- I´m a photographer or I consider myself being a photographer as I have00:00:05.145
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- a photographic mind and I´ve been working in photography since I was 13.00:00:08.537
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- I´m also searching for other ways how to express myself, so that is why00:00:19.501
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- there are also other works at the exhibition, objects or semi photographies,00:00:26.893
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- but it is based on my photographic mind. It is my master´s degree theses.00:00:31.179
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- I was working on it for one year and this is the first time the work is shown in public.00:00:40.571
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- The exhibition shows my collection of memories of childhood, puberty00:00:45.258
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- or this period of life being adult, living on my own and having experiences00:01:05.283
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- with first love and so on - subtle memories, olfactory, taste or sound sensations,00:01:12.398
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- or particular memories of childhood. It is memory recycling of trivial00:01:21.348
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- and essential memories rather than memories of big importance.00:01:33.061
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- I had some ideas, some memories to recycle, to express them and I started00:01:38.019
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- work with a photographic sketch. So there was an idea, sketch and00:02:04.494
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- then it had to go through the inner catalyst. Based on this I decided00:02:09.700
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- that some of the memories would not be exhibited as photographies,00:02:18.287
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- but it would be either in form of an object or I searched for the forms00:02:28.743
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- how to recycle a memory in order to express what I want to say to the spectator.00:02:31.847
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- The form should be there to support the content.00:02:41.149
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- For instance the biggest photography, portrait of a child and veiled person,00:02:58.678
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- it was made as an recycled memory of my childhood - one branch of my family00:03:03.367
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- has a habit of taking photographs with their dead family members.00:03:11.894