Significant other, unknown place – unknown other, significant place

Gabriela BK, Ranaji Deb, Dajana Düring, Gordon Endt, Jette Held, Saki Hoshino, Paul Kluth, Sarai Meyron, Hanna Samoson, Leevi Toija, Jakub Tulinger, Valentin Wedde, Zoe Zaucker

9. 10. – 1. 11. 2020

The exhibition will be open from 4 to 9 pm 
on the opening day, October 8, 2020.

curators: Stephanie Kiwitt, Anna Voswinckel, Tereza Rudolf

the exhibition takes palce within the Fotograf Festival X

The exhibition is based on a long-term collaboration between students. Based on a preparatory workshop for Fotograf Festival: Uneven Ground, international students at Prague’s FAMU and Braunschweig’s HBK started a discussion about the terms of otherness and the encounter. Inspired by conversations with artists in attendance and in exchanges about their own works, You the other I was first presented as a short-term show in the gallery Panel. During the course of a follow-up seminar at HBK, shaped by the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, the discussion was reinforced by notions of self-perception and exchange in the public sphere. In the photographic, video and performance works presented here, questions of the encounter, transgression and ways of looking at the other free from an exoticizing gaze are being negotiated.

The program of the Jeleni Gallery is possible through kind support of Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Prague City Council, State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic, City District Prague 7, GESTOR – The Union for the Protection of Authorship
Partners: Kostka stav
Media support: ArtMap, jlbjlt.net, UMA: You Make Art