The strength of Slovak artist, Lucie Sceranková’s (she graduated from AVU two years ago), photographs stems from the combination of imaginative imagery and games played with image representation.  Domestic staging and her self-help approach to creating models are characteristic of her works’ poetry.  Her endeavours bring to mind attempts by a chef to create the universe from a bowl of phyllo dough. The guest exhibitor is her older sister, sculptor Pavla Sceranková.  Sun in the Showcase will be their first joint exhibition.

An official opening of Tomáš Uhnák and Matěj Smetana’s „Butterflies in the Stomach“ exhibition will run parallel to the Lucia Sceranková opening. The „Butterflies in the Stomach“ exhibition will be shown in the Communication Space (Komunikační prostor) in Školská St. 28.

In recent years photographer, Kateřina Držková (1978), has devoted her time to interpretation of found photographs and analyses of mass-printed postcards from tourist destinations. In her new collection for Fotograf Gallery she takes on a field not secured by a conceptual framework, “work with archives”, and frees up her comparative processes to the level of associative and aesthetic chaining. The result is systems of fragile bonds between mutually reflecting duos and trios of images.

Tuesday, 9 April beginning at 5pm. Guided tour of the exhibition given by the artist. The artist chose works from three of his new colour photography collections for his exhibition at Fotograf Gallery. It is best to look at their mutual connection through the synthesizing character of Grygar’s work. Just as he chose several small details of everyday provenance many times in the past. His means of mapping through use of photographic tools, of course, once again uncovers his effort to combine different points of view within one exhibition configuration.

Official Opening: Tuesday, 26 March beginning at 6 pm

The photographs from the Photography Lessons exhibition were created during a workshop for students from a Prague high school. In the photos students reconstructed scenes from photographs of very different sorts:  reproductions of historic paintings and sculptures, iconic photojournalism images and also anonymous photos downloaded from the internet.  Some reconstructions look like memento shots from the running around of adolescents during a long recess break.  Others have better composed scenes.  Gravlejs takes the photos, blows them up and hangs them in the gallery as if they were not documentaries but rather independent images that are surrounded as such by their own inappropriate aura.

Borges‘s claim that mirrors contain something monstrous led Jiří Franta and Jana Kochánková to make a spatially-installed game based on mirroring and photography.  It expresses the absence vs. presence of objects and visitors in the present time and in the past.  The ROOM space is divided with opposite-facing walls and mirrors, whose mutual relationship allows for the creation of the illusion of an exhibition of spatial works that were once in the gallery but are no more.  From this perspective one can speak of the TIA exhibition as a specific form of artistic documentation.

A gallery is a place that sends us elsewhere.  The exhibition space as an artefact (?) and an information panel (!). What’s important takes place outside it. A quartet of composed outings and journeys to fields and smoke-filled dives. A concert in a shut-down mine.  Life awaits us elsewhere.

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