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There will be Dicks

Solo exhibition of Ivars Gravlejs (1979, Riga) is the first incomplete retrospective of the Prague’s FAMU school absolvent living in between Czech republic and Riga. Gravlejs here presents photographies and videos he took as adolescing pupil of elementary school in addition of actions and interventions he made as professional academic artist.In front of the camera everybody started to behave in different way. Most often happened that the stronger boys started to torture the weaker ones even more. They wanted their activity to be documented.

artistsIvars Gravlejs
curatorsMichal Novotný
placeFUTURA
tags
castMichal Novotný
cameraGiulio Zannol
soundGiulio Zannol
editingGiulio Zannol
interviewGiulio Zannol
categoryReports
published10. 5. 2015
languageČesky / English
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There will be Dicks
In today's social climate, the line between folk horror and urban myths is as thin and winding as the old streets of Prague. In our most recent historical memory, we have seen them re-enchanted by the decline in tourism and repopulated by lonely figures of stray night walkers and people excluded from society. The age-old idea of art as a mirror that allows us to see lived reality from a new perspective comes to mind, or perhaps a distorted glass surface can deform shapes and create illusions.