Fever State
Illness and vulnerable states of being unsettle the way we know and speak about the body. These conditions—whether chronic or transitory—fracture language, bend perception, time, and resist being neatly contained in existing forms of representation.
Fever State emerges from this friction: the struggle to articulate experiences of vulnerability, crisis, and repair when established vocabularies fail. Where we, as diverse, mixed-abled bodyminds with different capacities, cannot align with or adhere to normative concepts of time, space and productivity. Therefore, in the context of the exhibition, images become more than documents; they operate as gestures of resistance, intimate testimonies, and tools for reclaiming agency.
The starting point of the exhibition is the intersection of self-representation and image-making at times of personal crises, especially mental and physical challenges. How could image-making strategies be employed to highlight these vulnerable situations? By focusing on stories and experiences that are often questioned, invalidated or regarded as shameful or embarrassing, the exhibition examines how the détournement of these different modes—such as thermal imagery, computer-generated images, X-ray, ultrasound, montage, cellphone snapshots—can be seen as powerful tools in developing personal narratives, making visible what resists perception and fighting epistemic injustice. These imaging technologies/media, often developed within scientific or clinical contexts to get to know, to dissect, reveal and control bodies, are appropriated here to perform and speak otherwise. The invited artists use photography and moving image as forms of intimate, confessional modes of expression, where the practice and process of art-making functions as a kind of “autopatographic” therapy, a form of autobiographical “storytelling” where the author’s own precarity is in the focus.
FEVER STATE
October 4–12, 2025
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Opening performance · Amos Peled – Phantom Limb
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Artists · Szilvia Bolla, Leah Clements, Viola Fátyol, Barbara Hammer,
Rowena Harris, Magdaléna Kašparová, Phelim Hoey, Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss,
Jo Spence, Amos Peled
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Curators · Judit Szalipszki, Flóra Gadó
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Venue · Holešovice Market, Hall 13
Bubenské nábř. 306, 170 00, Prague 7 Holešovice
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Opening Hours · 10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
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