
November 9, 2018—February 17, 2019
Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
Useful Photography. Photography in Contemporary Slovak Art with Roman Ondak
Exhibition view: Useful Photography. Photography in Contemporary Slovak Art, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava, 2019 Photo © Martin Deko
Press Release
Useful Photography. Photography in Contemporary Slovak Art will not present photography as a useful, fast recording medium, 'a document of the period', or as an instrument of digital manipulation, but as a tool that is suitable for a wide range of use in contemporary art. In their response to the digital technology era, artists use the photo medium much more freely but in a more sophisticated way. Appropriated documented reality is constructed, arranged, staged anew,...