16 Years of the Fotograf Zone Festival
We invite you to the closing event of the final edition of Fotograf Zone Festival.
How Not to Lose Your Soul
A Shared Look Back, Moderated by Jiří Ptáček
Let’s bring back the shared memories of an incredible sixteen editions of the Fotograf Festival, born behind the window bars of a tiny room on Školská Street and since evolved into Prague’s largest regular photography event. Together with eyewitness Jiří Ptáček, we’ll press the shutter sixteen times, take a cleansing bath in memory, and, during the final ironing, try to figure out how not to lose our souls in the process.
Sixteen editions of the festival, fifty issues of the magazine and almost a quarter of a century of Fotograf Zone give us plenty of material to look back on. Especially now that we have decided not to keep certain things alive at any cost. There will be no festival next year, and the printed edition of magazine is also coming to an end. So it is time to revisit our shared memories, remember the people and moments without which Fotograf would not be what it is, and finally turn our attention to what comes after this chapter.
Program
2:00 PM | Denisa Půbalová – multisensory workshop
4:30 PM |Resisterra – workshop with Anna Mírková (theme: water/river)
4:30 PM | EDU Seniors – screening, Viktor Chomiak / Elpida
6:30 PM | Asphalt Lovers – performance by Azolla Collective
7:00 PM | 15 Years of Fotograf Zone Festival – moderated by Jiří Ptáček
8:00 PM | Wild Kin Afterparty – DJ: gin_and_platonic
Hynek Alt – Fantom
Fantom, a site-specific installation by Hynek Alt, returns to the site where J. Sudek once worked in Prague’s Újezd district. The central element of the exhibition is a video created within a digital reconstruction of the studio. The exhibition includes a new photographic work that returns to Sudek’s portraits of veiled faces.
Infrastructures of Imagination
The exhibition explores how mythical and ritual narratives are reconfigured within an environment of data abstraction, distributed knowledge, and the aesthetic protocols of the present, and how digital culture shapes new forms of storytelling.
Michal Kalhous – Goosefoot and Raspberries, The Road to Victory
The exhibition *Goosefoot and Raspberries, The Road to Victory* presents a series of photographs created over the recent period. It is an experimental tool of synthesis and a search for a path to fulfillment. At the same time, it is a purposeful, captivating exploration of suddenness and their relationships. *Goosefoot and Raspberries, The Road to Victory* is once again an attempt at a dialogue between inner experience and a higher, transcendent order.