Czech artists Barbora Šlapetová and Lukáš Rittstein will discuss their joint multi-media project ULTRA-SUPER-NATURAL.
The talk will be accompanied by photographs from their trips and will introduce a book trilogy of the same title.In repeated expeditions (1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2021, 2022), Barbora Šlapetová and Lukáš Rittstein consistently returned to the same area of Papua to investigate, by artistic means, the leap in time of prehistoric people into the 21st century. During their returns, extensive artistic material has been produced in the form of Barbora's photographs, experimental films, drawings and Lukáš's sculptures, which have been born gradually as individual chapters in a dialogue spanning more than twenty years. The aim of these expeditions was not ethnological research, but an artistic perspective expressing the wonder of the meeting of two worlds separated by the gulf of time. The layered testimony of the two artists can symbolically be seen as a visual probe into the souls of the last natural people on this planet before they are affected by the culmination of globalisation. Over time, Papuan chiefs have expressed a desire to meet the greatest Czech chief, to understand who is and what does an artist, or to meet one who, like the local tribal magicians, can fly to the upper level of the world - that is, space. This has led to Stone Age chiefs collaborating with the President of the Czech Republic, Václav Havel, or transforming their real bodies into works of art. What can first be seen as documenting an exploratory expedition becomes, in the end, primarily art. We see a visual expression of transformation, opening up the possibility of gaining new contexts and escaping from the ordinariness of everyday life.
Free entry, complimentary drinks. Registration necessary via: https://bit.ly/Slapetova_Rittstein_Artist_Talk
VenueCzech Centre at the Czech Embassy Cinema
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