Reports

Eluminator

Martin Sedlák presents light-kinetic installation Flag. There is luminous fluttering flag emerging in the dark in the thin pole.The author relieves this object of its traditional meaning and erases its identification features (national, civil and its ideological and political overlap), it negates membership of a group, state or country.

artistsMartin Sedlák
curatorsKatarína Bajcurová
placeRoman Fecik Gallery
tags
castMartin Sedlák
cameraPeter Barényi
soundPeter Barényi
editingPeter Barényi
interviewPeter Barényi
translationMichaela Wickleinová
categoryReports
published1. 3. 2014
languageČesky / English
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Eluminator
By imitating the gestures of objects and things that are already in the gallery space; by slowing down, pausing, lingering, alighting, unwinding... through these actions we can escape the entrenched trajectories we found ourselves on in the morning, rid ourselves momentarily of what we have already become, so that we can lose ourselves in thoughts of what we might be.
How exactly does the selection and evaluation of artists take place in the context of art awards and, where applicable, evaluation and recognition at art colleges, exhibitions, and other projects? How relevant or "objective" is this selection and evaluation? These are long-discussed questions that have been raised even more intensely in recent years, when the climate surrounding traditional models of awarding art prizes has been changing dynamically in Czechia and abroad, and questions of the forms and ethics of cooperation, care, support, sustainability, etc. are being discussed more and more frequently.