Artist
Barbora Bačová
Barbora Bacova is a Slovak photographer, born on in Košice. She studied photography at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Univeristy of West Bohemia in Pilsen.
Her work is dominated by authentic recording of everyday situations with poetic- geometric narrative overlaps. The themes touch on temporality, imagination, fiction, and the search for new image contexts (re-evalution of image). Unformal documentary images are diversfield with abstract or stylized „cut-outs“ of the everyday colors. ". The conscious disruption of the timeline opens up the possibility of individual interpretation, which the viewer can understand as he or she wishes - without time constraints. Barbora in last years is interested in the relationship between static image and the moving image. Her inspiration often comes from eastern Slovakia,personal experience, the theme of growing up and aging, home, landscape,spending leisure time and health care.
She has participated in joint exhibition projects in France, Germany, Slovakia, Czech Rupublic and others. She participated in Pla(t)form 2020 in the Swiss Fotomuseum Winterthur, where she was selected along with 42 artists. Barbora Bacova actually lives and works in Košice.
“I am gonna live my life”
I created this work at a time of my long term devastation, caused by the worries of a serious illness in my family.
The unusual form of the "book" in the form of loose sheets of paper bound together with a clip, reminds me of a medical file at the doctor's office. Record. The technical condition was to pause the computer, and focus on the manual activity of pasting photographs which represents a form of self-therapy and freedom of creativity. The images are taken with a smartphone and tend to be chronologically related. The caption "I am gonna live my life" is a phrase taken from the cover of the diary, which i saw it in fashion store... This health diary links photography to everyday life through a powerful personal experience.
In Oskar Helcel's Under Construction, the artist works to investigate a complex of commercial and office buildings in the centre of Prague designed by Zara Hadid. The complex is surrounded by a number of controversies concerning the investor's link to corruption, so Helce summons the figure of Hadid as a mysterious guide from the world of the dead, who, through a kind of biblical commentary, posits disturbing questions about power.
Space, time and the banality of everyday life are pervading motifs in Ines Karčáková's work. In Dancing Makes You As Happy As a 2073.35 Euro Pay Rise, the artist seeks to uncover the motivations associated with the previously idealistic vision of conquering the moon, which are now having a very concrete impact on consumer life on Earth, from scratch-resistant glass to GPS.
Karina Golisová provides insight into the structures of everyday life and relationships. Her project, Like everyone else, I have to be somewhere too, delves into the concept of anchoring oneself within the intricate fabric of community life. It explores the affirmation of existence and identity within the complex interplay of shared experiences.
Barbora Bačová gives a glimpse into her intimate life through her project I am gonna live my life, and conceives working with photography much more as a process than focusing on a specific or ‘successful’ result. Many of the images could conventionally be considered unsuccessful, which appeals to the artist, and she finds her signature in this approach.
The exploration of the culture surrounding the body and its definition of the ideal form is a central theme in Nadia Markiewicz's work. In her installation DRIVE-THRU, she combines objects, photography and video to address the fundamental question of what it means to fit or not fit in with the normative formula given by society.