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An international jury has selected five visual artists under the age of 35 for the 32nd annual Jindřich Chalupecký Award 2021. They are Robert Gabris, Jakub Jansa, Valentýna Janů, Anna Ročňová, and the artistic non-collective björnsonova. The five artists decided to continue the development initiated by last year's artists and not to compete for the title of laureate, which was thus awarded to all of them.
The exhibition Happiness Is Not for Everyone is a look at the phenomenon of self-help guides that resuscitate the myth of the strong, masculine individual who has his life firmly in his own hands. However, when we focus more closely, we see a lonely man in distress. From the constructed nature of the situation—the asynchronization and denial of the source image and sound, the speaker's hesitant yet determined diction—we can guess that this is a game with authenticity, that we are witnessing the performance of a role, the fulfillment of a task, the immersion in the state of sovereignty.
‘Gentle Triggers’ is a presentation of work by London based artists Jala Wahid and Nicole Morris whose practices are positioned between sculpture and moving image.
The exhibition is not a historical cross-section of Ester Krumbachová's work (although it does reflect it), but rather an extensive network of original material, numerous texts, images, and artifacts that Krumbachová dealt with and surrounded herself with throughout her life. It primarily presents Ester Krumbachová's archive/estate in thematically interconnected blocks, revealing her thinking about costume design, particularly the role of detail and the use of color, the interconnection of meaning, artistic form, and the overall atmosphere of a film, her work with text that copies spoken language and folk storytelling rather than high literary style, her relationship to magic, realism, subjectivity, male and female polarity, and the hierarchy of species and social and professional positions.
Andersson plays with the rigidity of academic language, which she uses with a degree of hyperbole and projects with a jovial delivery, full of sexual harassment and misogynistic remarks. The author breaks down our boundaries – just as she breaks down the barriers of the sexual undertones and hidden manifestations in the manner of communication of the masculine pop world.
The concept of the exhibition stems from a dialogue between historical works presented in 1993 by a group of emerging artists from Ústí nad Labem at two editions of the exhibition NARUŠENÁ ROVNOVÁHA (DISTURBED BALANCE) at the Municipal House in Prague and the Emil Filla Gallery in Ústí nad Labem, and completely new projects by younger artists born in the 1980s, who had the opportunity to experience the atmosphere of Ústí nad Labem, especially during their university studies, and this experience led them to develop their authentic creative attitudes.
The online environment often appears to us as a space of timelessness. A space where artifacts of the past accumulate regardless of their original context and where they disappear again after satisfying immediate demand. But can the (post)digital landscape be used to revive lost, missing or displaced media, objects, actors or interfaces? A thematic collection of audiovisual essays allows us to understand the online space as a labyrinth of fragments and traces of analogue and digital histories that can be speculatively ''reconfigured'' to play out surprising exchanges between ''then'' and ''now'' as well as to create alternative or unrealized futures.
A series of five videos about closeness and distance, it addresses the contradictions of the people who influence us most: our fathers believing they resolved the Mystery of Women, grandmothers who embody woman’s physical decline and the women, like Weil, who we admire but who, unlike the men, weren’t just allowed to be.
Anton Vidokle is the type of artist who might not seem to be a very prolific author, at least not in the classical, material sense of art production. Vidokle is interested in art as a means to learn as much as possible about the world we live in, to explore it.
The two-year artistic research project deals with the role of the protest image and its possible impact on real social, political, and economic changes. Through its individual outputs, the project offers multiple perspectives on the use of visual or audiovisual documentation as a possible emancipatory tool of the people.
How exactly does the selection and evaluation of artists take place in the context of art awards and, where applicable, evaluation and recognition at art colleges, exhibitions, and other projects? How relevant or "objective" is this selection and evaluation? These are long-discussed questions that have been raised even more intensely in recent years, when the climate surrounding traditional models of awarding art prizes has been changing dynamically in Czechia and abroad, and questions of the forms and ethics of cooperation, care, support, sustainability, etc. are being discussed more and more frequently.
Sex, Sickness and Videotape’ is a tribute to video as a medium which empowered women to make and break the rules of self-image, instead of reproducing the images that had been handed to them. Similar to Vanalyne Green’s engagement with video, the artists and writers who contributed to this project deconstruct and rebuild their practice in the response to challenges and possibilities of the current technologically mediated society.
Josef Holý focuses on the topics of information warfare, disinformation and the influence of algorithms of technological giants on our lives. How are and have these themes been reflected among artists working with moving image? The depiction of artificial intelligence or artificial humans has a fairly firm place in the history of visual art and is associated with many ethical issues that have realistically impacted us today.
The traveling exhibition Rituals of Solitude, conceived during the global lockdown, explores the spread of fake news, the reversal of the traditional relationship between private and public space, the paradoxical rituals that populate homes, the ways in which visual technologies are domesticated into tools of self-presentation and connection, the accumulation, fetishization, and display of objects in home interiors; and, in addition, the states of loneliness that arise as a result of forced isolation.
Through the moving images of artists Jeanie Crystal, Zein Majali, and Emily Pope, the exhibition explores the theme of diaries and personal narratives. You Make Me Feel is a dose of feelings, a jumble of reactions, and a message to one's future self.
When we deal with the legacy of mythology, we are primarily interested in what that "legacy" is. Are they themes? Specific characters? Certain models? Ideals? Through its narratives, mythology presents us not only with a multitude of archetypes and stereotypes, but also with many ideals and moral and emotional models that have been accepted to a certain extent as canons, dogmas, and model cases over the centuries. Carl Gustav Jung already noticed this in his interpretation in the field of analytical psychology (archetypes).
Currently, we encounter these changes and catastrophes being discussed in regional public debates by people from the scientific community, government agencies, and politics, who use the authority of expert images to describe the ongoing changes and impending catastrophes. We do not see images that deviate from the established norms of scientific representation in the public sphere, and the voices of those directly affected by these changes are heard little or not at all in public debate. However, the presence of the planet as an active force producing its own images and ways of sharing them gives power to these alternative voices, languages, and images.
The tools of visual and audio postproduction, 3D modelling software and generative algorithms have become so integral to our daily experience of the world that we often hardly acknowledge their presence. Yet something fundamental is happening to the (technical) image, as it gradually drifts away from its representational function, ceasing to be the image of “something”, a record, or some distorted “reflection” of the reality preceding it. Instead, it produces a reality of its own which, far beyond the edge of the screen, merges as one with the very world we once hoped to fix with(in) the image.
As we find ourselves in times that have extensive socio-political implications, the exhibition thematizes the insecurity, the suspicion and post-factuality gradually digging into our lives more and more. The many ambivalent mechanisms trough which we cope with this uncertainty and multiplicity of artistic processes (either politically-critical, or completely non-factual and sensual, scientific or even speculative) of the abandonment of what is considered “real” or “rational” take their forms in the interconnected realms of the technological, the natural, the mystical, the symbolical.
Most people imagine academic work as a slow march up the steep steps of the Ivory Tower. It has its clear hierarchies, formal organization, its rules both written and unwritten. It requires diligence, distance and conscientious work. All that is often true and at times necessary. Therefore, not many people think that theory would be riveting or exciting. But the work of Kateřina Svatoňová shows us that theory is, first and foremost, an adventure.
Rather than an exhibition, it is an authorial environment – architecture within architecture. The vision for this solution is based on the motif of an island, a changing landscape, lithospheric plates, and the story of the mill complex itself. The basic conceptual framework creates space for collective and individual multi-genre artistic and curatorial work.
The exhibition is concerned with contemplative pieces that exist in themselves as unfolding inquiries, probes that fluidly transition from the quotidian to the exceptional utilizing technical means as a virtual haptic pathway inviting us to delve deeper, to consider and reconsider.
Jiří David created this film for entirely personal reasons: as a gift for his father (who had shot the original footage) in order to raise his spirits as he suffered from an incurable illness. “The film’s creation was entirely unplanned. I took my father’s 8 mm films and transferred them onto VHS in the simple conditions of our flat: i.e., by projecting them on a screen and filming it with a VHS camera.”
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.
The final outcome from the workshop was to be a personal documentary from the location. I asked the tractor train driver to move the train in front of my camera. The train offered some amazing views of the museum. And that etude with a dog in the street at the end of the video happened completely by chance. I filmed and edited the video directly in the camera. Via my walkman I added background music that blared over the museum outdoor loudspeakers. A report on the museum park was created that did not feature any actual events, places or real people. No video could match the intensity of the experience though.