Šejla Kamerić a Aleksandra Vajd – Erotic Revue
#1 min Barbora Mrázková
2. 10. 2024
Artists Šejla Kamerić and Aleksandra Vajd presented their collaborative work, Erotic Revue, for the first time in the form of an object at this year’s collective exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat. The work took the form of a glossy magazine, resembling fashion periodicals, and was presented as part of a sculpture, a pedestal through which winds a metal rod, emerging and weaving through the perforated copies. The publication, Erotic Revue, will be distributed
anonymously, without the names of the two artists and main protagonists, thus taking inspiration from the well-known, then publicly inaccessible interwar avant-garde work Erotic Revue. The magazine format implies a way of reading for leisure and relaxation and shifts the theme to digital intimacy. It conveys moments of tension, closeness, and eroticism of both artists, occasionally a man. We observe their bodies from their own perspectives, from the viewpoint of the other, and from a third-person point of view. Glimpses of the erotic act, and of the act of photography itself.
Text: Barbora Mrázková
#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 Barbora Mrázková
Jan Durina – Weak Season
#1 min Barbora Mrázková
Rinko Kawauchi – M/E, On this sphere Endlessly interlinking
#1 min Barbora Mrázková
Jakub Jansa – Club of Opportunities, The Garden of Problems
#1 min Barbora Mrázková
Viktor Kopasz – Temporary Objects
#4 min Vojtěch Märc, Barbora Mrázková
Bára Mrázková – Image Search
We see something, we don't exactly know what. We want to find out; we enter the image into the search engine. It finds something, we don't know exactly how, usually more or less the right thing. Image search (or more precisely, reverse image search) will be familiar to most of today's Internet users. For Bára Mrázková, such search engines are creative tools. But for those who are interested in her work, they are a possible lead. What’s at stake is what is in the pictures, what is between them, and what is behind them.
#3 min Barbora Mrázková
ScreenSaverGallery
In its now classic offering of screensavers, Windows 98 offered the growing 3-D pipeline, also known as the Plumber's Nightmare. The pipe appeared in a black void and gradually filled the entire monitor. The recurring motif and monotony of the animation evoked a calming ambience. ScreenSaverGallery, on the other hand, offers a miscellaneous experience and a moment of surprise.