Ještě nejsem, kým chci být

Some people are so attuned to the world that they seem to be on hand when history strikes. Czechoslovakian photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková is one such figure: born to a family of painters in Prague, she was sixteen and had just begun to take photographs when Soviet tanks entered the city in 1968. As the daughter of “politically unreliable people”, she had to learn her craft outside of the university system. She thus chose to work, travel and explore the night in equal measure, whether as a factory worker in Prague in the late ‘60s, as a fashion photographer in ‘80s Tokyo, as a frequent visitor to Prague’s only queer club in the ‘80s or as a chambermaid in West Berlin from the late ‘80s to early ‘90s. Along the way, she continually took photographs of the places and people surrounding her. She also took numerous self-portraits, and her oeuvre thus gazes in two directions at once: outwards to history and inwards to the photographer chronicling it. This portrait of a portraitist is pieced together from the most appropriate of materials: her archive and her voice. In passing, it also tells a tale of three cities (Prague-Tokyo-West Berlin) across five whirlwind decades. (Lucía Salas)

In the presence of Lukáš Kokeš , Libuše Jarcovjáková and Ralph Wieser.

Klára Tasovská: PŮLNOC (2010), PEVNOST (2012, KO-REGIE), NIC JAKO DŘÍV (2017, KO-REGIE)