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Puddles
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If there is any specialist among artists in the visuality of puddles, it is Marek Šefrna. He has taken to the streets to study several of them carefully to see what they look like when they are created. Subsequently, during the dry season, he created the most accurate imitations of the puddles that are commonly found in the depressions during the rainy season. Here too, the artist enters the story in the role of the weather, creating a completely banal art installation on the street that is doomed to go unnoticed by passers-by. It is an act for the sake of an act. It is a mischievous pun by the author of the prop. It is a desire to irrigate the street in spite of global warming and drying water resources. What you see are not puddles. They are photographs of puddles. I mean, no. They’re photographs of mock-ups of real puddles.
text: MgA. Klára Vavříková
from the series Puddles
(model of puddle, M 1:1)
Installation in public space, C-print
(matný fotografický papír FastDry, gramáž 260)
67 x 100 cm
2023
from the series Puddles
(model of puddle, M 1:1)
Installation in public space, C-print
(matný fotografický papír FastDry, gramáž 260)
67 x 100 cm
2023
from the series Puddles
(model of puddle, M 1:1)
Installation in public space, C-print
(matný fotografický papír FastDry, gramáž 260)
67 x 100 cm
2023
from the series Puddles
(model of puddle, M 1:1)
Installation in public space, C-print
(matný fotografický papír FastDry, gramáž 260)
60 x 90 cm
2023
from the series Puddles
(model of puddle, M 1:1)
Installation in public space, C-print
(matný fotografický papír FastDry, gramáž 260)
67 x 100 cm
2023
Living in a big city one loses one’s natural instincts and orientation. In the visual smog of the city and in the complete overwhelm of all the senses, he is no longer able to notice obvious anomalies – natural anomalies. He is unaware of the strange phenomenon of a lone fresh puddle in the middle of a sun-baked day, the cause of which is almost supernatural. The act is borderline unnoticeable and should make us think about how far removed we are from natural weather cycles, intuition and nature.
<
Puddles
>CZ
If there is any specialist among artists in the visuality of puddles, it is Marek Šefrna. He has taken to the streets to study several of them carefully to see what they look like when they are created. Subsequently, during the dry season, he created the most accurate imitations of the puddles that are commonly found in the depressions during the rainy season. Here too, the artist enters the story in the role of the weather, creating a completely banal art installation on the street that is doomed to go unnoticed by passers-by. It is an act for the sake of an act. It is a mischievous pun by the author of the prop. It is a desire to irrigate the street in spite of global warming and drying water resources. What you see are not puddles. They are photographs of puddles. I mean, no. They’re photographs of mock-ups of real puddles.
text: MgA. Klára Vavříková
from the series Puddles
(model of puddle, M 1:1)
Installation in public space, C-print
(matný fotografický papír FastDry
gramáž 260)
67 x 100 cm
2023
from the series Puddles
(model of puddle, M 1:1)
Installation in public space, C-print
(matný fotografický papír FastDry
gramáž 260)
67 x 100 cm
2023
from the series Puddles
(model of puddle, M 1:1)
Installation in public space, C-print
(matný fotografický papír FastDry
gramáž 260)
67 x 100 cm
2023
from the series Puddles
(model of puddle, M 1:1)
Installation in public space, C-print
(matný fotografický papír FastDry
gramáž 260)
67 x 100 cm
2023
from the series Puddles
(model of puddle, M 1:1)
Installation in public space, C-print
(matný fotografický papír FastDry
gramáž 260)
67 x 100 cm
2023
Living in a big city one loses one’s natural instincts and orientation. In the visual smog of the city and in the complete overwhelm of all the senses, he is no longer able to notice obvious anomalies – natural anomalies. He is unaware of the strange phenomenon of a lone fresh puddle in the middle of a sun-baked day, the cause of which is almost supernatural. The act is borderline unnoticeable and should make us think about how far removed we are from natural weather cycles, intuition and nature.