Viktor Kopasz – Temporary Objects
#1 min Barbora Mrázková
2. 10. 2024
The theme of books and their possibilities has been a part of Viktor Kopasz’s life for thirty years. Temporary Objects is an artist’s book that is not a singular handmade original that the author continuously adds to but an issued, distributed publication. It is a “hybrid book” consisting of seven separate booklets, or modules, with short accompanying texts by Jiří Ptáček. Each booklet revolves around a specific theme, anchored either in an object (an apple, the Tatra Mountains) or a basic shape (a circle, a crystal). The individual volumes show the long-term strategies of the author’s work. On the one hand, to place the object within the context of events and phenomena, and on the other, to abstract it into basic geometric shapes and forms. Kopasz is interested in the boundary between image and pre-image, copy and original. The book features visual reconstruction, cyclical layering, individual variations and configurations, visual patterns and selected segments, and wholes and fragments of, e.g., a geometrically cut apple core or a staircase connecting the ground floor and the fifth floor of a block of flats.
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
Šejla Kamerić a Aleksandra Vajd – Erotic Revue
#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
#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.