The Shape between a Girl Looking at her Phone and her Phone
| Author: | Dušan Zahoranský |
| Year of publication: | 2023 |
| ISBN: | 978-80-88366-23-2 |
| Language: | Czech, English |
The catalogue is published in a Czech-English version.The publication presents a selection of works from the last 20 years. The catalogue opens with the most recent objects - fictional books - guides to hard-to-solve problems, which are gradually followed by older works. The spatial ones break words down into malleable atoms and molecules. The more media-sophisticated ones dissect more complex phenomena - work, fatigue, rest. The publication also arranges the author’s interventions in public space, most of which take the form of a sign, a logo, or a few verbal gestures. The author’s texts previously published in Psí Víno are also published here. The catalogue concludes with a summary essay by Ondřej Buddeus.
Dušan Zahoranský is a sculptor and educator who has been active on the Czech art scene since 2003. His practice combines objects and spatial installations with conceptual gestures, video, and text. He has a long-standing interest in the relationship between objects, images, and meaning, as well as in ways of challenging established modes of perception.
His work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the Czech Republic and abroad, including at Künstlerhaus in Vienna, Donumenta in Regensburg, and the Biennale of Photography in Liège. Since 2015, he has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.