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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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Radziszewski’s art, in its multidisciplinary medley, is driven in its roots by a longing to carve out a space of diversity and queer beauty out of misery. Be it the secret queer meeting spots in communist Poland or the place for alternative narratives on history, it is constantly craving for a less miserable world…

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Heji Shin

Although the German-Korean artist Heji Shin attained wider popularity through her photographs for the Spring/Summer 2017 collection of the New York-based brand Eckhaus Latta, which featured explicit images of couples of varying ethnicities and sexual orientations engaging in sexual acts, the true scandal arrived with her portraits of the American rapper Kanye West, who recently elicited controversy through his relationship with the incumbent president of the United States…

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Karolina Wojtas

Polish artist Karolina Wojtas doubtless has a lot of fun creating her photographs and installations. This usually seems inconsistent with the depth of thought her photographs suggest. Even so, this is exactly what her photographs are: a fluid mix of various kinds of humor, bizarre elements, practical jokes, children’s jokes, and bullying…

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Alžběta Bačíková

While Alžběta Bačíková’s experimental approach to documentary puts the transparency of the filmic medium in parenthesis, this self-reflexive attitude does not operate at the expense of creating an empathic relation between artist and protagonist, subject and viewer…

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Sidsel Meineche Hansen

One hot summer day, I happened to reach for H. G. Wells’s 1923 novel Men Like Gods. In it, Wells presents his idea of the world of Utopia. People here are precisely carved castings of ancient deities representing the ideal potential development of our society at some point millenia in the future…

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