Klára Klimas (she/their, *2003) studies at the Universität für angewandte Kunst, weaving photography, moving images, and text into their artistic practice. Their work delvesvles into the deconstruction of identities and the fragility of systems, while exploring the possibilities of autofiction and non-narrative storytelling.
In the video Some of us are forced to pretend to be shadows, Klimas examines a fractured reality where impressions overshadow facts, and mirrors distort as much as they reveal. The screen does not merely reflect but actively co-creates identities. The video contrasts the relentless pace of digital production with slow, meditative imagery. Embracing fragmentation and accepting the fractured nature of identities can become a feminist gesture, resisting systems demanding legibility for control. Autofictional diary entries and footage employing glitch aesthetics seek a path to resilience—understood in this context primarily as a reclamation of agency and the ability to shape one’s own story.
The exhibition in the gallery window represents the winning project of the Fotograf Gallery’s public open call. The jury: András Cséfalvay, Anežka Janushka Kořínková, Tereza Rudolf, Viktoria Vítů.
