Iwona Germanek – Herbarium
#1 min Josef Moucha
16. 12. 2025
The artist was inspired by her mother’s family albums and botanical collections preserved from her childhood. The collages combine photographic archival materials and plant pressings. Their composition expresses the flow of time and the elusive flickering of the past. Through the ghostly resonance of nostalgia, she is able to evoke the intimacy and uncertainty of memory, indeed the fragility of existence itself. The highly personal works have brought the artist success in both Polish and international competitions. For example, last year’s book biennial of the Central European House of Photography in Slovakia awarded one of the main prizes in the contemporary publishing category to the author’s previous publication, Pink Doesn’t Exist / Różowy nie istnieje / Růžová neexistuje (2023). Here, once again, the introductory texts, written by Ada Grzelewska and Weronika Kobylińska, are presented in three languages: English, Polish, and Czech.
Text: Josef Moucha
Josef Moucha
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M. Hrubá, P. Scheufler, T. Štanzel – Good Light!
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Lucie Černá, Michal Novotný (eds.) – Libuše Jarcovjáková
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Jan Douša – Bob Krčil (1952–1992). Žít, jako by šlo o život (Live Like Your Life’s On the Line)
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Eugenia Maximova – Silent River
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Flashes of old memories
“Bohdan Holomíček, an artist of life: continuous action, outputs while you wait.” This was the conclusion of my recommendation, written six years ago, to the Association of Professional Photographers of the Czech Republic, which then indeed proceeded to decorate Holomíček with the title of Personality of Czech Photography for his long-standing contribution to the field.
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Notes From Libuše Jarcovjáková
The Czech Design Academy has inducted Libuše Jarcovjáková (b. 1952) into its Hall of Fame for her lasting cultural impact just as cinemas are screening the photographer’s memoirs I’m Not Everything I Want to Be and the National Gallery Prague is celebrating the success of her retrospective.
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On Authorship
I don’t need a theme… I am a theme! – that, in short, is the shift that is making its way across social media (and not exclusively, either) where quantity manifests as a practically riveting movement. Never before has the field of photography existed with any semblance of the massiveness of contemporary practice – power and incisiveness contained in a message of non-negligible quality, however, remains just as rare as ever.
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