Fotograf Gallery

Work in Process


Start: 26. 2. 2024, 18:00

The Work in Process exhibition is an exhibition about labor that is necessary and supportive, that we encounter everywhere that needs to be kept organised and that is often neglected. Even in galleries, numerous workers are partly „invisible“: applying for grants, keeping the accounts, managing technical equipment, installing, de-installing, guarding exhibitions, cleaning, and maintaining social networks. The exhibition wants to make all of this visible, knowing that it may become another in a series of exhibitions about care.

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Work in Process

The Work in Process exhibition is an exhibition about labor that is necessary and supportive, that we encounter everywhere that needs to be kept organised and that is often neglected. Even in galleries, numerous workers are partly „invisible“: applying for grants, keeping the accounts, managing technical equipment, installing, de-installing, guarding exhibitions, cleaning, and maintaining social networks. The exhibition wants to make all of this visible, knowing that it may become another in a series of exhibitions about care.

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5 East Broadway | Marie Tomanova

Fotograf Contemporary is pleased to present Marie Tomanova’s first solo exhibition at Fotograf Gallery. Titled 5 East Broadway, it features an entirely new body of work by the artist. The exhibition combines for the first-time color, black and white photography, and short films to present a nuanced and multi-faceted vision of powerful individuality. Between February and May 2023, Tomanova rented a 3.5 by 3.5 meter studio located at 5 East Broadway—literally, a small, crowded room—on the fourth floor of a New York City walk-up building and invited dozens of youth to come and tell her their dreams, to dance, to take photographs, and to film.

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Jiří Toman: “…and the Water Rises”

The work of the photographer Jiří Toman from Pardubice is extensive and varied, and this time the Fotograf Gallery will present an intimate selection inspired by a rather unreflected set of photographs of the foaming Elbe, ice crystals and snowdrifts taken in the vicinity of the weir near Počáply. Original working enlargements will be complemented by digital reprints from Toman’s negatives and contemporary entries by Šarka Zahálková, who was inspired by both Toman’s photographs and his involvement in animated film.

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A rather morbid air, and it was hard to see how it could convey wishes for a happy future

Pay attention and watch closely. Revice and reflect. Listen to others and to yourself. Confront despair. 

The final works exhibited in the Gallery Fotograf combine a sensitivity to their surroundings with an awareness of their own situation. Students at the Academy of Arts Architecture and Design in Prague look around them and explore the contexts in which they find themselves. While sometimes inviting us into seemingly private settings and intimate situations, they end up touching on generational and more general themes and reflecting on societal and planet-wide affairs.

Support

Fotograf Gallery is supported by the Czech Ministry of Culture and during the year 2021 by a grant from the City of Prague amounting to 630 000 CZK.