Daučíková’s video practice has undergone several phases over the past thirty years, in which different approaches and perspectives on the politics of the body, the work of memory, sexuality and desire, the representation of women from a feminist perspective, and gender experience extending beyond the boundaries of prescribed binarity and identity have been articulated. The screening presents a selection of works from the period 2017–2022, originally created for exhibitions abroad and only rarely shown on the domestic scene.

Screened video works:

Talking to You, 2021, 2-channel projection, 33 min.
On Allomorphing, 2017, 3-channel projection, 16 min.
My Mental Body, 2022, 4-channel projection, excerpt, 14 min.
Expedition for Four Hands and Accompaniment, 2021, 3-channel projection, 10 min.

Anna Daučíková lives and works in Prague. In the 1990s she co-founded several women’s non-profit organizations and served as a spokesperson for LGBT rights in Slovakia. She has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (VŠVU) in Bratislava and at the Academy of Fine Arts (AVU) in Prague. Since 1991 she has exhibited both locally and internationally, including: 2009 – Gender Check: Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe, MUMOK, Vienna; 2015 – Kyiv Biennial / School of Kyiv; 2016 – Galerie Futura, Prague; 2017 – documenta 14, Athens/Kassel; 2018 – FOR with Assaf Evron, Neubauer Collegium, Chicago; 2019 – KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava; Tirana Patience, Museum of Socialist Realism, Tirana; Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of the Life, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; 2020 – DYKWTCA, Whitman-Walker Corner, Washington; 2021 – 14th Baltic Triennale, Vilnius; Compassion Fatigue is Over, Rudolfinum, Prague; 2022 – Secession, Vienna; 2023 – Kunsthaus Kollitsch, Klagenfurt; 2024 – Tate Modern, London; 2025 – Trafó, Budapest.

Kino GAVU: Ančan / Anna Daučíková