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Lenka Glisníková

The exhibition Late Intimacy responds to the pressure to disclose private matters that intimacy currently faces. This pressure is evident in both the mass media and social networks, which are programmed to exploit our need for social acceptance and reward, and is also present in the hidden monitoring and analysis of our behavior in physical and digital space. We are increasingly aware that the ultimate goal of this pressure is to obtain material that can be exploited for commercial or political gain.
Burning hair might not be available on the scale of instant scents yet. They bring critical unease into the reading of Lenka’s and Tania’s environment. Just as the camera work in a strangely voyeuristic video in which the loudest emotion besides breaking into the private zone is hopelessness. The authors gave up direct control over the camera shots and gave it to a vacuum cleaner that moves through the space on its own and cleans up.