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Kateřina Šedá -
Besides offering the first overview of the artist's projects, objects, films and drawings, this reference monograph will also a new commissioned essay by Adam Szymczyk.
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.
Edited by Fanni Fetzer.
Texts by Fanni Fetzer, Michal Hladik, Vladimir Kokolia, Ales Palan, Adam Szymczyk.
 
published in July 2012
bilingual edition (English / German)
23,7 x 28,6 cm (softcover, dust jackett)
160 pages (239 color & 114 b/w ill.)
 
40.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-03764-273-3
EAN : 9783037642733
 
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