Darja Lukhanenko – How to make rockets disappear?
#1 min Tea Záchová
5. 12. 2023
Online publications seem like a video game in which the reader chooses between two worlds to navigate. If we accept the fact that we all used to be stars, and if we can imagine that our bodies resemble those of bombs, we may even win the war. The online publication of fresh graduate Darja Lukhanenko is also the final project of her studies at the IV. Studio of Fine Arts at Prague’s UMPRUM. The author works with the perspective of the relationship between humankind and space exploration, demonstrating the old colonialist structures. The topic of her long-term research thus touches on the Cold War era and conquests of space and planetary expansion, which resides in utopian thought to this day, although only in the minds of the richest. In funny, light and metaphoric language, the author works with texts bordering on technical imagination and walks us through simple and visually clean instructions before a journey into the unknown. The question is whether we really need to aim for the cosmos when we are already making a mess at home, on Earth.
Darja Lukhanenko, How to make rockets disappear?. Prague: UMPRUM, 2023. Online publication.
Tea Záchová
#2 min Fotograf Zone
FOTOGRAF ZONE FESTIVAL 2025 – TALK TOGETHER
The fifteenth edition of the international Fotograf Zone Festival, titled TALK TOGETHER, focuses on language and interpersonal communication in its many forms. This year’s festival will be presented in a condensed ten-day format, running from 3 to 12 October 2025, and will offer audiences new perspectives on how language shapes our relationships, understanding, and conflicts.
#2 min Natalie Drtinová, Dorota Franková
Dorota Franková – Tenderness and Pain of Dorota Franková’s Portraits
In her work, Dorota Franková focuses on portraiture. While the portraits of others tend to be full of tenderness and fragility, her own are captured in exacerbated situations or via manipulated photographs that emphasise the restlessness of the mind.
#1 min Tea Záchová
Maja and Reuben Fowkes – World of Art / Art and Climate Change
#1 min Tea Záchová
Katy Hessel – Story of Art (Without Men)
#1 min Tea Záchová
Anna Volkmar – Art and Nuclear Power: The Role of Culture in the Environmental Debate
#1 min Tea Záchová
Boaz Levin, Esther Ruelfs – Mining Photography / The Ecological Footprint of Image Production
#3 min Polina Davydenko, Tea Záchová
Polina Davydenko – Cosmoses of Justice and Ordinariness
Laziness, dissatisfaction, voyeurism, irony, human and extra-social energy and its phenomena that accompany us in today's hot days are important spices used by author Polina Davydenko. She sprinkles this spice on the main characteristics of her works about the quite common but important topic of home.
#3 min Tea Záchová, Julie Béna
Julie Béna – Like the Moon in the Sun is my Shadow
Associative visual games characterize French artist Julie Béna as an artist who uses a refined language to bridge two words – ambiguities transform unbounded speculations, thus creating a hibernating indeterminacy of reading. Essential to her work is the open concept of two realities that can interpenetrate within a particular choreography and scenography.