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Markéta Othová Born 1968, Brno, Czechoslovakia Lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic Markéta Othová’s large-scale black-and-white photographs are exhibited as suites of images that create a lyrical narrative of nomadism, charting her travels between her native Prague and cities beyond. They are captured moments of transit: a glance from the window of a car or a train or a moment caught while quickly moving through the open landscape or absentmindedly walking a city street.
Marketa Othova "Talk to Her," 2006. Every photograph shows the pop singer Bjork, sitting on a plastic chair at a street cafe in Venice during the 2005 Biennale. Her presence explains the expressions of the passersby - some stop, some attempt to talk to her - a growing crowd moves around her. Bjork remains in the same seat, sometimes laughing, sometimes drinking, sometimes frowning, sometimes with her eyes closed, and sometimes she is blocked from view. Othova took each photograph from the same position; nothing is posed, everything happens by chance.
Markéta Othová
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Markéta Othová’s large-scale black-and-white photographs are exhibited as suites of images that create a lyrical narrative of nomadism, charting her travels between her native Prague and cities beyond. They are captured moments of transit: a glance from the window of a car or a train or a moment caught while quickly moving through the open landscape or absentmindedly walking a city street.
Marketa Othova "Talk to Her," 2006. Every photograph shows the pop singer Bjork, sitting on a plastic chair at a street cafe in Venice during the 2005 Biennale. Her presence explains the expressions of the passersby - some stop, some attempt to talk to her - a growing crowd moves around her. Bjork remains in the same seat, sometimes laughing, sometimes drinking, sometimes frowning, sometimes with her eyes closed, and sometimes she is blocked from view. Othova took each photograph from the same position; nothing is posed, everything happens by chance.
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