Tereza ZelenkovaBorn in Czech Republic. Lives in: London
Royal College of Art
For me, photography is at once intimate as well as a relentless witness of our existence. It is directly related to our experience of being in this world and my intention is to record and somehow translate my subjective vision into images.
At the core of my practice I seek to destabilize different subjects by reassessing their potential as metaphors for broader questions surrounding photography’s capability for representation and its relationship with the real. By looking at them through a prism of art and literature, I attempt to realign their place in the world and open up their potential for meaning.
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Work of art I would like to makeMy latest work is an installation that comprises of a series of black and white photographs and several objects from my personal collection. This installation can be understood as a metaphor for the night as a time associated with both inspiration and imagination, but also melancholia, solitude and isolation. The darkness of the night, like the darkness inside a camera, is a space where images are conjured. Here I am not really interested in the images brought to us by dreams but rather by that point of insomniac vigilance when one can no longer recognize what’s a dream and what’s reality; when familiar objects start to take on shapes of something else, undergoing a sort of metamorphoses. In the world of hyper real digital imagery, I chose to look at the world with my eyes squinting in order to filter out the insignificant detail, allowing imagination to complete the image.
At first sight, the subjects of my photographs can seem quite disparate, but they are not. Being bound together by an array of associations, they simultaneously resist a weaving narrative. Each thing, divorced from its original context and juxtaposed with another, assumes a new meaning within the series. It’s like I’m creating a library of symbols, and through a thorough and considered edit, I create words and sentences.
If I were selected, I would like to continue working on this present body of work, exploring my subject in more depth and considering new exhibition strategies.
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My Artworks (6)
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