Ka3ka3: To the touch of blue light

Ka3ka3...

Ka3ka3: To the touch of blue light

30. 9. — 31. 10. 2021

ALTERNATIVA
Space Behind the beech / intervention into the space
Komensky Street No. 10
Jihlava

The visual artist and performer ka3ka3 graduated from the Painting Studio with Jiří Černický at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. During her studies, she completed internships at the Visiting Teacher's Studio at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague under the guidance of David Maljkovice and Sláva Sobotovičová, and as part of her stay abroad she also completed an internship at HEAR in Strasbourg at Peinture's studio under Mathieu Boisadan.

The artist's pseudonym ka3ka3 (read kaškaš) has been used by the artist since 2018. It is a nickname given to her by her father, who died unexpectedly in the same year, when ka3ka3 was on an internship in Strasbourg. The nickname refers to a game with a Czech keyboard, where "3" corresponds to the letter "š", but also to the French name of the game of hide and seek - "cache cache", but also a transcription of the Arabic word clown.

Ka3ka3 is one of the artists who carefully consider the form of their work and, for its theoretical basis, turn to a thorough study of theoretical books, which they use as a verification of their own, empirical experience with the world.

Playing with one's own identity, privacy, disguise, the metaphor of a real personality and the one we show in the physical world and within the social network, these are questions that ka3ka3 systematically solves in its work. The outputs of her work range across several media - from performative events with a happening overlap to installations activating the viewer. The decisive factor is the interest in corporeality, the costume, the game with its own identity, in which it erases the boundaries between the real and the played. Wiping out the disguise and the real self that we can (not) get to. Relativization of our real selves, the skins of disguises that we take on or do not take on in different situations. The "Blue Light" project, which was presented in several different variations in several places (for example, Studio Krymská, Na Pomezí, Cross Attic, Farmstudio), gives the opportunity to experience the virtual world through its physical experience.

The bridge between digital technologies and the real world in this work is presented by ka3ka3 through stitched textiles, and not just any. With chemlon yarns subject to decomposition caused by UV light, it sews garments with the past, or rather parts of garments, as if they were laid in discontinuously in parts in a cloud. As has been said, these are not clothes at all: she often recycles clothes for artistic creation that she wore herself or that her friends donated or acquired for this purpose. The symbolic reference to identity, which the clothes in the creation of ka3ka3 represent as bearers of personality, but also the skins that we take on to modify or hide our own identity, is then complemented by blue light. Blue light draws attention to the fact that we face the same colored light during our time on social networks - despite the fact that the same blue light - as often the skins or disguises we wear - results in alienation from the real world.

The exhibition is over

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