Audio-visual Art

FEMME T'AFFALE

Controversy about looking on. Utopia of Fatality? The dominant image is a portrait of the narrator profile. Narrator’s head position and gestures are stylized to a position which is reference of current but also past stereotype expression of beauty, sensuality, passion and destiny in a moment. 

artistsZuzana Žabková
place_Neurčené město
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categoryAudio-visual Art
published2. 10. 2010
languageČesky / English
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FEMME T'AFFALE
The exhibition Late Intimacy responds to the pressure to disclose private matters that intimacy currently faces. This pressure is evident in both the mass media and social networks, which are programmed to exploit our need for social acceptance and reward, and is also present in the hidden monitoring and analysis of our behavior in physical and digital space. We are increasingly aware that the ultimate goal of this pressure is to obtain material that can be exploited for commercial or political gain.
In the video They Read, he gradually and casually introduces several intergenerational pairs. Fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters speak about their origins and ability to speak their “native” languages. Members of the younger generation admit, in fluent, natural Czech or Slovak, that they’re not so confident when speaking the language of their parents – that it’s the “kitchen” dialect of the second generation of immigrants. And it’s these linguistic shifts that the artist sees as a symbol of the rift that appears between him and his parents.