\u200bIn her videowork and collages Kot\u00e1tkov\u00e1 reflects on social rules, expectations and propaganda strategies, which impose restrictive structures on the individual.\u00a0Animated body parts-a pair of eyes, a pair of hands, a face, an arm, two knees and their feet peak ot from behind a black curtain-pay tribute to the long-standing tradition of Prague\u2019s beloved Black Light Theater Company<\/em>, speaking of the potential of gesture and the surprising liberation of physical fragmentation. Kot\u00e1tkov\u00e1\u2019s Black Theatre<\/em> may be technically more rudimentary than the UV-lit spectacles of the Prague Black Light Theater, from which it takes its cue,but it travels into more complex psychological territory in suggesting that the fragments stand in for the whole, or the inanimate object speak for a voiceless individual. Coming out of her more extensive series entitled “Theatre of Speaking Objects, Black Theatre”<\/em> explores the method of indirect communication and objects as the intermediary for speech. The objects and gestures borrow the voices of their passive owners and they describe, more or less, coherent stories about human isolation, differences, detachment, articulating or other difficulties. With this body of work, Eva Ko\u0165\u00e1tkov\u00e1 tests alternative methods of non-verbal communication, unarticulated expressions through movement, unidentified sound, pantomime, and versions of sign language.<\/p>\n Exhibiting artist: Eva Kot\u00e1tkov\u00e1<\/p>\n Curators: Check Your Head! project of the curatorial team of the OFF-Biennale Budapest (Nikolett Er\u0151ss, Anna Juh\u00e1sz, Hajnalka Somogyi, Tijana Stepanovic, Borb\u00e1la Szalai, Katalin Sz\u00e9kely, J\u00e1nos Szoboszlai)<\/p>\n Venue: Kisterem Gallery (1053 Budapest, K\u00e9p\u00edr\u00f3 u. 5.)<\/p>\n The exhibition is realized within the framework of the OFF Biennale with the collaboration of the Hunt and Kastner gallery.<\/p>\n
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