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Mission Possible
Curated by Michal Kolecek (Czech Republic)
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The theme of periphery/center relation offers a number
of possible interpretations, especially in Prague, whose geographical
location, as well as its historical and political roots, is so rich
in permanent penetration of various cultural influences and orientations.
Moreover, the unwillingness to present in real its own peripheral
location often misinterpreted as the center of universe has always
played its role in the Prague milieu.
This schizophrenic situation of Czech post-totalitarian society can
be, with a bit of hyperbole, documented with such a banal example
as Mission: Impossible, the action movie, certainly is. It is partly
set in a weird environment of an unnamed city somewhere in the “East”
of Europe. The secret agent played by Tom Cruise makes his way through
various traps and unwittingly presents a number of well-known architectonic
monuments. Meanwhile the Czech viewer now and then blissfully identifies
with the flawless superhero to alter into an entrant of a Prague topography
contest.
Visual art, which arises from such connections concentrates the institutional
uneasiness of Central European society, and at the same time reflects
the energy of its recent past, as well as the dynamic present, which
is often contrary. It is a gentle art, without easily recognizable
properties, but also art consistently involved in terms of confrontation
of individual attitudes with both political and social processes.
It is art that might become a sign of a new tradition of the Prague
Biennale held in the step-by-step recultivated and integrated space
of Central Europe.
Artists:
Dan Acostioaei
Jirí Cernicky
Jana Kalinova
Sejla Kameric
Kristof Kintera
Barbora Klimova
Ján Mancuska
Pavel Mrkus
Oliver Musovik
Markéta Othová
Michal Pechoucek
Reinigungsgesellschaft
Stepanka Simlova
Dezsö Szabo
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