Suspended mythologies

Radim Labuda deals systematically with video in its „touristic“ form. He unintentionally finds and records images and situations, which are thus freed from the reality and transfered into a new context and come into relations of signification. The video installation „Suspended mythologies“ is an attempt on another view of that way acquired material and its analysis in an opposition to moving images, which are presented to the viewers by the media. The author is looking for and at the same time putting off the possibilities, by which these images can get into complex mythological relations.

artistsRadim Labuda
placeHotDock Gallery
tags
castRadim Labuda
cameraPeter Barényi
soundPeter Barényi
editingPeter Barényi
interviewPeter Barényi
translationEva Maršíková
published2. 5. 2011
languageČesky / English
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Suspended mythologies
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.