Audio-visual Art

ROADBACK

Video showing a winter landscape moving forward while the road goes in the opposite direction. We try to move on but at the same time we remain in the past… 

Klára Jirková (*1983)

She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, New Media I and School of Monumental Art. In her work she reacts to contemporary events and she often examines the limits of art itself. She also critically reflects our society and its trends. To put her projects into practice, she often uses well-established systems or connections she subsequently disrupts and modifies. Thereby she offers us new views on things we are familiar with.
She attended a scholarship at Universität der Künste in Berlin and at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.

http://www.klaara.net

artistsKlára Jirková
place_Neurčené město
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categoryAudio-visual Art
published8. 2. 2013
languageČesky / English
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ROADBACK
How and to what extent can we understand the land, and what do we all know and not know about it? To whom does it belong, and how do we change it, for better or worse? How can we express and capture in human, rather than statistical, terms, both the visible and invisible transformations that the land undergoes, both locally and globally, with regard to the entire biosphere and climate?
In the heart of Madrid a ravaged forest lays calm in the aftermath of the storm. Shepherds, sheep and dogs roam among the branches of uprooted trees. Above them, the city resounds with birdsong and underneath we hear the murmurs of the herd. Old walls, new barriers enclose this territory. At night its borders dissolve on the hilltop. Under a black sky the contours of its inhabitants emerge. The land rings out and the city glimmers.