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Fotograf Residency profiles
Bartosz Flak
Postmortem photography – the past tradition of depicting corpses of deceased people immediately before their funeral, has left behind thousands of incomprehensible, obscure and deeply intimate pictures, easy to find in today’s family archives, flea markets and on piles of discarded waste. On the occasion of Bartosz Flak´s current essay collection, he would like to present the topic of Polish postmortem photography and literary approaches towards found photographs.
Erik Vilím
Erik Vilím (born 1990) is an aesthetist and curator. From 2017 to 2019 he completed his doctoral studies at the Institute of Literary and Artistic Communication at the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. His most recent artwork is called Meditativeness of Expression in Visual Art.
Detu Jincharadze, Mariam Natroshvili
A key element of their art practice is a text, written “off the page”. With words and sentences artists give titles to the places to reveal what is invisible. Duo are founders of the museum on call – Museum of Contemporary Art Tbilisi. Recently they have founded platform of words – Frequently asked questions – that involves all kinds of text-related formats.
Gvantsa Jishkariani
Gvantsa Jishkariani (born 1991) is currently based in Tbilisi. In 2013 Jishkariani and Eliso Kirvalidze founded the first magazine about Georgian contemporary arts and design scenes (gargar.ge). In 2017, alongside Nata Kipiani, Jishkariani founded the Patara Gallery in an underpass shop in Tbilisi, which is a space for experimental, hitherto unpresented art and for game-changing young artists.
Beáta Istvánkó
Beáta Istvánkó (born 1987) is a Budapest-based art historian and curator. After finishing her studies she worked as the project coordinator of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and the Studio of Young Artists’ Association, and has curated numerous independent projects. In 2017 she founded the contemporary art publication store and gallery, ISBN books+gallery. This is the first independent bookstore focused on contemporary art publications in Budapest.