Parallels between the human body and water. Photographer Sceranková exhibits in Prague
Using artistic photographs, Lucia Sceranková compares the human body and its experiences to water. How successful her unconventional work is, you can judge from the Photographer located in Prague’s Jungmannova street. She opened her last exhibition of the year on Thursday. The works of the Slovak conceptual photographer can be seen here until February 11.
The works of the thirty-seven-year-old finalist of the Chalupecký Prize have already been exhibited in the National Gallery in Prague, the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava and museums in Gdańsk, Vienna and Cuba. Sceranková works with photographs, but she uses them to edit and distort reality rather than simply capturing what she sees in front of her.
He has been interested in the connection of the human body with the elements for a long time, the current exhibition represents the culmination of a long-term fascination with water. The author worked with her through photographs, videos and installations. “I still consider the photographic framing of reality as an inspiring strategy for working with the image, but I like to think about how the surface of the photograph becomes permeable and fluid. In practice, this thinking leads me to work with object, installation and moving image,” he explains his technique.
She called the exhibition, in which water “becomes a metaphor for the experience of motherhood, vital energy, the foam of days, a cleansing bath, but also a mirror of lived experience,” Heart Seas. I come from a book by the British anthropologist Veronica Strang, who described an imaginary inner sea flowing through the heart and maintaining its ebb and flow.
Sceranková, a native of Košice, studied at the Bratislava University of Fine Arts for five years before moving from the intermediate studio of Ilona Németh to the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague to the painter Vladimír Skrepl. She completed an internship at the School of Arts and Cultures in Newcastle, England, and a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. She was nominated for several awards, in addition to the Start Point Prize, for example, the Jindřich Chalupecký Prize. Her sister, the sculptor Pavla Sceranková, also succeeded in this.