Old Matters

Anna Daučíková (b. 1950) addresses various gender issues and questions involved in the search for one’s identity. Her work includes video art, performance art, and feminist art. The exhibited black-and-white sets of photographs from the Moscow/Soviet era are unfamiliar to the Slovak art scene because most of them were never exhibited there. To some extent, they help to define her later work realized primarily through video art. These photographs show us that social and political attitudes are more apparent in her work than feminist attitudes, that they are a more fundamental feature of her work.

artistsAnna Daučíková
curatorsBohunka Koklesová
placeStredoeurópsky dom fotografie
tags
castAnna Daučíková
cameraKapelová Jana
soundKapelová Jana
editingKapelová Jana
interviewJana Kapelová
published22. 4. 2011
languageČesky / English
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Old Matters
No Fun I. is a journey among skyscrapers that bank clerks and employees of multinational corporations left long ago. Perhaps, most likely, they will return once again to continue the endless cycle leading to a non-existent future. But for now, at least, they have been replaced by a different situation. Somewhere in this desolate landscape, a lonely woman is now telling her life story. Nearby, in a dark alley, a tense battle is taking place between a tough truck driver and an innocent high school girl. Not for long, though. Everything will soon be cut short by the nuclear explosion of two non-binary rockets in love.
Alex constructs and, in turn, deconstructs a fluid identity that defines itself through ephemeral contributions, the power and anxiety inherent in the possibility of breaking down the boundaries between subject and object. Bold yet light-hearted, we trust the work unreservedly for its emotion and the vulnerability of the artist’s personal input.