Komentovaná prohlídka výstavy Make Voices Be Heard: Chapter Four

Commented tour of the exhibition Photographer of the Festival – Make Voices Be Heard: Chapter Four.

Exhibition part of the fourteenth year < em>Festival Photographer "Make Voices Be Heard" lends voices to artists who, in their films, installations, performances, photographs and paintings, thematize on the one hand racism towards various ethnic, religious and LGBTQIA+ groups and, on the one hand, the consequences of colonialism and colonial thinking, the premise of which is racism, in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia that were under the influence of the former Soviet Union. The final fourth chapter of the Photographer Festival presents the works of ten artists in the MeetFactory Gallery.

The central work is a five-channel projection of the Japanese artist Meiro Koizumi's Theater of Life from 2023. The series of photos Center of Europe from 2020 by the artist Alina Bliumis from Belarus will also be on display. The collection of photographs by Ukrainian artist Yevgenia Belorusets Kristina's Tag from 2021 directly documents the everyday life of Roma communities who had to leave their homes because of the war. Slovak artist of Roma origin Emília Rigová will stage her own Altar of Artifacts related to her identity.

Identity is also at issue in the contributions of two representatives of the Vietnamese community in Prague. The 12-minute film Love, Dad from 2021 by Diana Cam Van Nguyen tells the story of the conflict between Vietnamese traditional norms and the expectations of contemporary liberal society. The question of cultural identity is also addressed by Ming Thang Pham, who currently lives in Vietnam to learn the traditional, 8,000-year-old technique of lacquer painting. His experiments with this technique will be presented for the first time at this exhibition. The fate of the labor force coming from Vietnam, especially seamstresses in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s, in connection with the fate of sewing shirts for Russian soldiers on Czech territory after 1968 is addressed in the video Sičky from 2008 by Shit Sam, located at the end of a wooden tunnel.

Memory is an Animal Which Barks With Various Mouths from 2023 is about memory, the manipulation of historical memory and the creation of false myths of heroism. by artist Jeanna Koles from Russia. In another two-channel installation Surfaces That Matter: Youth Day 1988 from 2022, Serbian artist Marta Popivoda, in collaboration with Ana Vujanović, deals with mass psychoses arising under the influence of ideology and the relationship of the individual to the mass, based on actual performances organized in Yugoslavia . At the same time, this projection can also be understood as a reference to the exciting performances at today's pop concerts. The nine-minute film Thyroxia from 2023 by a Belarusian artist performing under the pseudonym Ptuska and Georgian artist Keto Gorgadze.

Exhibitors: Yevgenia Belorusets, Alina Bliumis, Ptuška & Keto Gorgadze, Miero Koizumi, Jeanna Kolesova, Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Minh Thang Pham, Marta Popivoda, Emília Rigová, Shit Sam
Production: Nikol Hoangová