Reception Room

Guests of stately houses are usually welcomed in reception rooms and the waiting is meant to be a pleasant time; yet the interior seem somehow – next to comfort – to pursue some kind of objective. The objects have occasionally representative character and are used to define power relations and predetermining attitudes and role models. In this highly charged relation the sculptural arrangements get into a condition that can also provoke discomfort in the counterpart…

 

artistsJakob Neulinger
placedas weisse haus
tags
castJakob Neulinger
cameraIvan Svoboda
soundIvan Svoboda
editingIvan Svoboda
interviewIvan Svoboda
published3. 11. 2011
languageČesky / English
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Reception Room
The concept of the exhibition is based on the ideological convergence of the work of Catherine Radosa and Jaroslav Varga, which consists in revealing the physical and symbolic traces of the past. Both artists examine these relics of bygone times and eras from the perspective of collective memory and the mechanisms of its storage. A vacant lot is an empty space, a gap left by a past situation that can be filled again. The installation Colonne / Révolution captures the constant cycle of the monument in a triple projection. The period of the revolutionary Paris Commune is still a problematic period in France, similar to the period of socialism in our country: it has been and continues to be reinterpreted, tabooed, or marginalized.