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Republic of Figures

Sometimes the artist becomes a sort of unorthodox historian, a story-teller who speaks through an alter-ego, a found or fictional character too traumatic or incomprehensible, one that has been forgotten or has never entered history in the first place. How is it possible to imagine a community of such figures? We enter a space of an alternative history and look at the present as if from awry.

artistsRiccardo Giacconi, Adéla Babanová, Sanja Iveković, Alice Nikitinová, Andrea Morbio, Martin Zet, Marcell Esterházy, Julita Wójcik, Markéta Othová, Agnieszka Polska
curatorsTereza Stejskalová
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castTereza Stejskalová
cameraNikola Brabcová
soundNikola Brabcová
editingNikola Brabcová
interviewNikola Brabcová
categoryReports
published17. 11. 2014
languageČesky / English
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Republic of Figures
The curators displayed in glass show-cases toys belonging to forty artists, art theoreticians and architects who grew up in the 1970s and 80s. When we look back we realize that the exhibition was partly a serious and partly an ironic commentary of this kinship and an advance signal of the advent of the period of normalization which became a basic source for the work of a number of Czech artists after the year 2000.