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Wanted

#46 tourism — Wanted

Dávid Doroš

Sometimes, we need local elections so you can pull out the list of candidates from your mailbox and Nick Cave keeps repeating “who cares what the future brings?” and you realise that it’s really about that, since “everything is connected with everything else?” And for a moment, you too feel the fear of a “possible” future, towards which we run, urged by consumerism, market economics, and a desire for personal joy…

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#45 hypertension — Wanted

Varvara Gorbunova

The history of my family has had a profound effect on my photographic practice. Revisiting my artistic choices and themes always brings me back to my roots, to my matriarchal family. Ever since my parents divorced, my coming-of-age world had been populated solely by women…

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#45 hypertension — Wanted

Viktor Šelesták

Viktor Šelesták represents a new type of photography that emerged only in this century. It is a peculiar type of photographical documentary, whose focus are not humans, but rather the footsteps they leave behind, the products of civilization…

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#44 empathy — Wanted

Marija Mandić

In my grandmother’s house, I found a family tree and a letter concerning it. As expected of the patriarchal system, in the centuries-long family line, only names of male ancestors were written…

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#44 empathy — Wanted

Lan-Xi Ruan

During the third lockdown of 2021, Chinese artist Lan-Xi Ruan created a series of minimalist staged photographs on multiple nightly walks through Berlin with her friends. After years of staying away from China, her homeland, the artist tells a personal story of nostalgia, belonging and feelings of displacement…

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#43 collecting — Wanted

Michaela Nagyidaiová

To “mould” is to form, shape or model a specific object. In this project, the word represents a visual investigation into the transformation of countries that were formerly part of the ‘Eastern Bloc’, which have transitioned from communism to capitalism…

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#43 collecting — Wanted

Adam Evans

The digital collage Hledání mentefaktu (Finding the Mentefact, 2018) was created as an intuitive illustration for a performative research expedition at the site of a former landfill where a friend and I were staying…

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#42 food — Wanted

Veronika Čechmánková

Beloved Baking deliberates about our relationship with bread. It remains an integral part of our diet but no longer holds the same tangible and symbolic value it had in the past as modern Western diets have become more diverse…

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#42 food — Wanted

Sofia Okkonen

In Honey, Please (started in 2020), I have been reflecting on the chronic anxiety and recovery from the apocalyptic pathos caused by news coverage of, for example, the insect decline…

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#42 food — Wanted

Iryna Drahun

Isolation during the c ovid-19 pandemic gave us more time to spend both on ourselves and on things that we never had enough time for during normal goings-on. Some of my friends took up entirely new pastimes…

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#41 postdigital photography — Wanted

Yulia Krivich

Presentiment is less a record than an apprehension of the events currently taking place in my country. These impressions come together to make sequences of pictures and signs that I have recreated through photography…

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#41 postdigital photography — Wanted

Katarína Dubovská

The multimedia installation Intertwined Conditions comprises five clusters of condensed image fragments, water containers with printing ink extracted from visual material, a hybrid transfer print, oxygen tubes, four video clips with sound, particleboard covered in wall paint and a section of scaffolding…

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#39 delight, pain — Wanted

Marie Tomanová

It Was Once My Universe is the story of a homecoming after a decade in the United States. The family farm – a dream house, a refuge for the imagination in exile – has become a foreign and uncanny world apart, moving in its own time field…

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#39 delight, pain — Wanted

Duna

The DUNA group is an open collective of artists (Lenka Balounová, Ladislav Kyllar, František Svatoš) focusing on themes of the futures such as ecology and technology. DUNA has presented at a number of independent exhibitions; as part of the 4+4 days in motion festival in Prague; in 2019, they introduced the first installment of their Adaptus series, which was then developed as part of an exhibition at NoD Gallery in Prague and on various online platforms…

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#39 delight, pain — Wanted

Nadia Markiewicz

I deal with topics of disability, chance and identity, using vocabulary derived from entertainment. Decisions in my work are based on personal experience as well as on ongoing research on cultural representations of disability…

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#38 death, when you think about It — Wanted

Benedek Regős

Benedek Regős lives and works in Budapest. His main focus of interest is the role and impact of the photographic medium on human culture. By combining different genre specifics and technical features, he reflects on the nature of photography through science, architecture, history, and the built and tangible heritage…

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#38 death, when you think about It — Wanted

Pamela Kuťáková

Pamela Kuťáková graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. She has shown her work primarily in independent artist-run spaces, in the Jelení Gallery, in the 35 m2 Gallery, but also in group exhibitions in the National Gallery in Prague and in the Technical Library in Prague and in Amsterdam…

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