Kateřina Šedá

 
Kateřina Šedá bases her work on the observation of "invisible" contexts and social relationships between individuals in her most immediate surroundings—within her family and her birthplace, Ponetovice, a village in the Moravian countryside. The observations she makes (in the form of drawings, texts and diagrams) then prompt a series of assignments, tasks and games which she carries out in those surroundings. For example, her "society game" called "Nic tam není" [There's Nothing There] (2003), involved the participation of all the inhabitants of Ponetovice. Based on observations she made, she created a universal "Regime for a Day"—an ordinary Saturday in a Moravian village. After cajoling her fellow villagers for some time, she was able, one Saturday, to get them to synchronise all their activities according to the regime she devised for the day, doing all the same things at the same times throughout the day. Kateřina Šedá also collaborated on several projects with her grandmother. In "It Doesn't Matter" (2005), her grandmother created several hundred drawings from memory, documenting the objects she had sold at the household goods shop where she'd worked her whole life.

(external link : www.katerinaseda.cz)
 
Kateřina Šedá -
2012
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Kateřina Šedá - Over and Over
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
New monograph, based on Šedá's work for the Berlin Biennal 5.
Kateřina Šedá - For Every Dog a Different Master
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Tranzit
Artist's book based on Sedá's work for Documenta 12.
Kateřina Šedá -
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Tranzit
Artist's book: first complete survey of projects by the young Czech artist arranged in jackets and brought together in a box.


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