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#22 Image and text

The topics of photography and text have been intersecting for a long time. In our conscience this combination is likely most markedly registered in the Avant-Garde period, when artists attempting to achieve a new provocative connection drew upon it. These were mainly Dadaist and Surrealist movements, who were looking to change the perception of photography as a decorative, or perhaps mimetic, art form. They fully took advantage of the pioneering options that the joining of photographs with Dadaist plays on words afforded them. One of the initial resources for the named connection was the field of advertisement, posters and other print formats, where image and text automatically co-existed. This originally commercial strategy became the subject of new quotes and interpretations mainly with the rise of the Post-moderns and of conceptual art in the second half of the 20th century. Another frequently used approach was the creation of image diaries that guide viewers through the history of photography from its beginnings. It initially experienced a huge boom with the development of automation of photography and then mainly through digitalization in recent years. Last but not least, not long ago created new media, namely video, internet, mobile phones, etc., also played a role in creating new forms of combining photographs and text.  All this led to new, completely unexpected forms.

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Andrey Anro

One of the protagonists of the project, the grandfather of the artist Andrey Anro recollects the following story. During the construction of new socialist housing in the town of Smarhon in western Belarus, human bones from an old Jewish cemetery appeared in the cellars of the buildings…

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Tereza Zelenková

In a tucked-away courtyard full of history, Tereza Zelenková is exhibiting a collection of new works. This is a compact exhibition that works in a refined manner with the gallery space, creating a strange rhythm, suggesting a possible grammar and dictionary for uncovering the essential; that which the images and texts only suggest…

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Urszula Kluz-Knopek

The Polish artist Urszula Kluz-Knopek invites everyone to play a very special online game about our own death, funeral and fears connected with the thought of dying. The aim of this text is to draw attention to the visual dimensions of this project, analyzing the strategy of using photography and creating iconoclastic collages…

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Oreet Ashery

For years, humor, irony and sharp critique have all been important elements in the art of Oreet Ashery, arising from her direct experience of an artist living in a multicultural environment who is originally from a more conservative background, socially and religiously speaking…

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