Profiles

Krátký Petr

I noticed a certain suspicion in his work and expression.

 Suspicion not in a negative way but as a kind of irony, which isn’t a cheap pretence to camouflage confusion, but puzzling the intention or the art work tone. The humour there isn’t grotesque. The right definition would be an easiness.

Key to the selection are different approaches of the artists to the the video medium. For Petr Krátký is video a contemporary fulfillment of his conceptual attitude, Mark Ther is familiar with a film language, and Macula uses video as a design strategy.

David Kořínek (curator of the August issue profiles)

 

artistsPetr Krátký
curatorsDavid Kořínek
placeCzech Republic
tags
directingJan Rendl
castPetr Krátký
cameraJan Rendl
soundKarel Štulo
editingJan Rendl
categoryProfiles
published14. 8. 2011
languageČesky / English
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The title Distressed refers not only to desperate working conditions and the condition of the workers, but maybe even to one actual product of textile- the sought after and fashionable „distressed denim". Jeans that are supposed to look used and worn out. In some sort of twisted logic people in rich countries, from where textile factories have been pushed in the competition for the cheapest labour, wear ripped jeans. They uncousciously show the true character of the conditions of its production. As if they were transparents of the impoverished, hung on the naked bodies of the narcissists of the richer part of the worlds.