Mein Vater Ist Kein Tschechischer Fotograf
My father is not a Czech photographer
Frankfurt 2010
Solo Show
Under the title “My father is not a Czech photographer”, room 121 is pleased to present works by the artist Renata Kudlacek. "Memory is a construction, an attempt to put your life in a meaningful context." Renata Kudlacek's works investigate this idea. At a second glance, the bewitchingly beautiful images (Polaroids, films and screen-printed collages) unfold a depth that questions the idyll.
The point of reference of her work is always her own biography. Renata Kudlacek was born in Czechoslovakia and moved to Germany in her childhood. The assimilation of her family forced a very specific look at the history of her own origin, which e.g. it showed that Czech was not allowed to be spoken at home. When dealing with the subject of memory, Renata Kudlacek follows an artistic and historical philosophy tradition. In the picture of the ruin, German romanticism conjured up memory as suffering from the present, as melancholy. In his key work "Uncle Rudi" Gerhard Richter subjects the objective gesture of photography to a radical reflection. Renata critically uses methods of re-enactment, the re-enactment of historical scenes, in order to make frameworks of memories visible.
Curated by Jakob Hoffmann, room 121, Frankfurt
My father is not a Czech photographer
Melancholia C-type Prints on aluminium
Frankfurt 2010
Solo Show
My father is not a Czech photographer
Frankfurt 2010
Solo Show
My father is not a Czech photographer
Frankfurt 2010
Solo Show
My father is not a Czech photographer
With Sylvia Reed
Frankfurt 2010
Solo Show
My father is not a Czech photographer
Recollection video installation
Frankfurt 2010
Solo Show
My father is not a Czech photographer
Frankfurt 2010
Solo Show
Installation
My father is not a Czech photographer
Frankfurt 2010
Solo Show
Installation
My father is not a Czech photographer
Frankfurt 2010
Solo Show
Installation
My father is not a Czech photographer
Vive la Classe
Screen-pint on paper
Frankfurt 2010
Solo Show
