”My art practice has been about transformations of photography, not only as a medium in terms of technology, but also in the way its role is generally perceived within society \u2013 whether in terms of its informative value, its ability to deceive, its propensity for multiplication or its accessibility. I see their transformations as a challenge to look for new creative avenues.”<\/p>\n
An Attempt to Regain Reality <\/em>began its life in 2011 at an exhibition in Prague\u2019s MeetFactory. Alena Kotzmannov\u00e1 exhibited a postcard, a souvenir bearing on one side the pictorial motif of the first astronauts on the moon, and on the other a message, an address and a postmark. Every element of the show was perfectly placed into a temporal and a local context. The artist selected six photographs from her archive whose motifs were more or less closely reminiscent of the landscape of the moon, or echoed space research technology.<\/p>\n Between 2009 and 2019, Kotzmannov\u00e1 completed a total of ten chapters of such photographic series that she entitled Attempts.<\/em> She has used various motifs and mediums, but every chapter shares one thing: an air of mystery, the mystery of where and when, what came before and what after; even so, they all give the impression of having a certain narrative line. The term line is maybe somewhat misleading, since the most significant aspect of Kotzmannov\u00e1\u2019s practice is the non-linear temporality of her artwork. The stories seem to be playing out on several parallel levels at the same time, in different places and other time periods; and Alena Kotzmannov\u00e1 allows these levels to intersect for just a moment at the time and place of an exhibition, or in this case within an artists’ book.\u00a0Similar parallel worlds are represented by the texts of nine authors. The texts, one for each Attempt<\/em>, have various forms ranging from theoretical essay to prose and poetry.<\/span>\u00a0Each author approached the selected chapter in a completely different way and offers expanded possibilities for reading the initial visual message.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Text:\u00a0Tom\u00e1\u0161 Pospiszyl,\u00a0Martina Pachmanov\u00e1,\u00a0Radek Wohlmuth,\u00a0Edith Je\u0159\u00e1bkov\u00e1,\u00a0Lenka V\u00edtkov\u00e1,\u00a0Ji\u0159\u00ed Pt\u00e1\u010dek,\u00a0Michal P\u011bchou\u010dek,\u00a0William Hunt,\u00a0Du\u0161an Zahoransk\u00fd<\/p>\n Editor: Jan \u010cih\u00e1k<\/p>\n Graphic design:\u00a0Mikul\u00e1\u0161 Mach\u00e1\u010dek<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"”My art practice has been about transformations of photography, not only as a medium in terms of technology, but also in the way its role is generally perceived within society \u2013 whether in terms of its informative value, its ability to deceive, its propensity for multiplication or its accessibility. I see their transformations as a… View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n<\/pre>\n