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Belarusian artist Alina Bliumis will present a series of photographs created in 2020 titled Center of Europe. The series documents various locations that are sometimes referred to as the centre of Europe, found in Belarus, Slovakia, and Poland. Ukrainian artist Yevgenie Belorusets’s 2021 collection of photographs Kristina’s Tag documents with thrilling immediacy the everyday life of Roma communities that had to leave their homes due to the war. Slovak Romani artist Emília Rigová will stage her own Oltář (Altar), composed of artefacts relating to her identity.
Identity is also the subject of contributions by two representatives of the Vietnamese community in Prague. The twelve-minute film Love, Dad (2021) by Diana Cam Van Nguyen, an internationally acclaimed film that has been awarded multiple prizes, is a humorous and dexterously animated short about the conflicts between traditional Vietnamese norms and the expectations of contemporary liberal society. Ming Thang Pham also explores issues of cultural identity. He currently lives in Vietnam where he is studying the traditional, 8000-year-old technique of lacquer painting. His experiments with this technique will be introduced at this exhibition for the first time. The fate of Vietnamese workers, especially seamstresses in the 1970s and ’80s, in connection to her own fate sewing shirts for Russian soldiers in Czechoslovakia after 1968, is the subject of Šičky (The Seamstresses, 2008) by Sráč Sam, located at the end of the wooden tunnel.
Memory, the manipulation of historical memory, and the creation of false heroic myths are the subjects of Memory is an Animal Which Barks With Various Mouths, a 2023 video by Jeanna Kolesová, a Russian artist who proficiently uses the most up-to-date possibilities of electronic equipment. In another two-channel installation, SURFACES THAT MATTER: Youth Day 1988 (2022), Serbian artist Marta Popivoda – in collaboration with Ana Vujanović – explores mass psychoses born under the influence of ideology, and the relationship of the individual to the masses on the basis of real performances organised in Yugoslavia. At the same time, this screening can also be understood as a reference to the gripping performances at today’s pop concerts. The Belarusian artist working under the moniker Ptuška and Georgian artist Keto Gorgadze introduce their Thyroxia (2023), a chilling document of the irresponsible response to the threats present after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion in 1986, which was also motivated by Russia’s thoughtless colonial approach to neighbouring countries.
Make Voices Be Heard: Chapter Four
25. 10. –06. 01. 2024
MeetFactory Gallery
Opening: 24. 10. 2024
Artists: Yevgenia Belorusets, Alina Bliumis, Ptuška & Keto Gorgadze, Miero Koizumi, Jeanna Kolesova, Diana Cam Van Nguyen
Minh Thang Pham, Marta Popivoda, Emília Rigová, Sráč Sam
Curators: Noemi Smolík & Adam Vačkář
Production: Nikol Hoangová
Additional Programme:
25. 10., 17:00 exhibition guided tour | free event
03. 11., 13:00 exhibition guided tour | free event
14:30 Senior Voices: an afternoon with Elpida | free event
Admission:
100 CZK in MeetFactory or presale at GoOut
50 CZK students, seniors, ZTP
The ticket is valid for both exhibition spaces.
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