Exhibition In Dialog in Galerie FaVU, opening 30 April 2025 18:00
In Dialog – Clare Chun-yu Liu, Šárka Zahálková
30 April – 11 June 2025
opening: 30 April 2025 at 18:00
The exhibition of artists Šárka Zahálková and Clare Chun-yu Liu explores how to work with hidden, locally rooted narratives. Through active engagement, historical imagination and academic research, the artists reveal and create new knowledge that illuminates the political, cultural and ecological landscape of this place that would otherwise remain hidden and invisible. Clare Chun-yu Liu will present an art film based on her postdoctoral research at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology. Her artistic research reinterprets 18th century Czech-Habsburg Chinoiserie from the perspective of the Chinese diaspora, reflecting on her Taiwanese origins. The film will offer a cross-cultural historiography through a historical yet imaginative ethnography of relevant historical figures, including the painter Johann Adalbert Kratochwill, who decorated the Chinese Cabinet in Sternberg Palace.
Šárka Zahálková will present excerpts from her dissertation project in the form of a site-specific installation that opens a dialogue with the work of Clare Chun-yu Liu. During her artistic research at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, under the supervision of Dušan Zahoranský, she explored the dynamics of dialogue at various levels during its collective formation in the context of the surrounding world. Her work is based on an ecofeminist and posthumanist approach to the shared space of dialogue and incorporates principles of acoustic ecology, binaural field recording, non-violent dialogue and critical pedagogy. Through a series of sound works, it explores how to co-create a more subtle relationship with public space.
The project is realised with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
| Author | Mgr. Tímea Vitázková |
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| Short URL | https://www.favu.vut.cz/en/students/news-and-calls/f26745/d287715 |
Responsibility: Jana Janečková