Workshop: PETRA HŮLOVÁ – THE MEANING OF THE TITLE AND ANNOTATION

#1 min Petra Hůlová

22. 9. 2025

Portait: Petra Hůlová, 2021
Portait: Petra Hůlová, 2021

How to work with a title and annotation as a part of visual work? Why is it important? Why is it not? How a title changes the meaning. Why it doesn´t.

#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Holešovická Tržnice, Hall 13

Let´s be aware of some basic rules, but let´s not necessarily respect them. During our 2.5-hour workshop we will explore some possibilities that text has as a medium that can confirm, question or add to your own visual work. I draw on my experience not only as writer of fiction and screenplays but also vizual/textual performer who combines medium of text with music and visual material.

WHAT TO EXPECT
– Learn strategies of combining text with visual material in order to create new meaning
– Gain knowledge about subversive potential of annotation vis-a-vis their photography/video/object
– New ways of how to reflect one´s own project
– Engaging critical discussion

EVENT
Oct 3, 2025, from 12:30 to 15:00
Oct 4, 2025, from 15:00 to 17:30

VENUE
Holešovická Tržnice (Holešovice Market), Hall 13
Bubenské nábřeží 306, 170 00 Prague 7

The workshop is part of the FUTURES Annual Event program and are exclusively for FUTURES artists.

Futures Annual Event 2025 takes place within the Fotograf Zone festival in Prague. Futures is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

 

#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Holešovická Tržnice, Hall 13FUTURES

Petra Hůlová

Petra Hůlová´s novels, plays, and screenplays have won numerous awards and have been tranlated into 15 languages. She is a regular commentator on current events, scriptwriter and author of theater plays. in 2014 she founded Czech Writers´ Association. She also performs with collective Hůlová/Havrda/Vrba and lectures creative writing.  

#49 Talk Together

This issue explores language – its forms, possibilities, and limits. We look at how we communicate in the digital space, how the language of artificial intelligence changes our notions of creativity, and how visual images can replace words. You will discover why language is never neutral and how it shapes identity, creates inequalities, and opens paths to liberation. The issue features a reflection by bell hooks, the artistic practice of Eszter Magyar, projects documenting the Roma community in Brno, and visual essays by Claudia Larcher and Tabor Robak. The magazine presents language as a tool of communication, power, and resistance and invites you to reflect on what it truly means to talk to one another today.

False Friends

#4 min Fotograf Zone

False Friends

#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Jedna Dva Tři Gallery, Petrohradská kolektiv

Language shapes our world, influences our thoughts, and reflects our societies. In the context of the Balkans, specifically the former Yugoslavia, a region marked by shared histories and divergent narratives, language can both include and exclude. Through the concept of “false friends”, words that appear similar but differ in meaning, this exhibition explores how identity, politics, and cultural memory echo in the language we use, and vice versa. Simply put, we often speak of what we believe are the same notions, not realising we understand them differently. These deceptively familiar terms thus become symbols of regional complexities, miscommunication, and broader cultural and historical tensions.