Katarína Hládeková has made an installation consisting of three objects whose construction copies three typographical symbols: the hashtag, the infinity sign and the bracket. By their very shape, these signs evoke the central themes of the installation: closedness, cyclicity, balance and symmetry. Responding to the architecture of the specific exhibition space of the Korzo at the Trade Fair Palace by their scale, choice of material and color, the shapes also serve as load-bearing structures for the installation of other elements. The large-size prints on a textile base make use of found photographs, physically manipulated and re-photographed by the artist, while also working with Hládeková’s characteristic paper models; which, flattened into two dimensions through the camera’s objective, are getting even more entangled in the relations between reality and illusion. The middle part of the composition contains a set of photographs Hládeková started collecting based on the book I Am a Strange Loop by American scientist Douglas Hofstadter. The photographs depict closed and cyclic clusters of banal objects. The installation’s “circle” of meaning is imaginarily closed by the motive of looking, mirroring and photographing. In its own way, the whole installation creates a “model situation” of a closed circuit of representation and reception.
