photographed by Jirina Skalova, 2006, lambda print, 50x40cm
Jirina Skalova had been employed as a lathe-hand at Skoda Klatovy from 1968 until 2006. In 2001, she and her husband purchased the universal lathe on which she had worked for 22 years.
Exchange of Handwriting, 2006
"Over a 2 month period, I exchanged handwriting styles with a woman - Christina Courtin, a New York based musician - from a cultural - social background different than my own. I selected 36 short passages from The Cunning Little Vixen by Rudolf Tesnohlidek and every day we took one of these passages and copied it out in the other s handwriting style."
Coffee Table Art, 2005, (3 objects) laminated wood frame, sewn cloth on wood frame, acrylic on canvas on wood frame, 150 x 150 x 35 cm
Local Stigma, 2004 (4 video projections and 4 painted canvases)
Four videos with sound projected on four painted canvases. Each video, appox. 1 hour in length, shows one artist preparing a 1.75m x 1.4m canvas and painting over it with white paint, filmed from above. The artists/actors each show their varying methods and abilities while preparing and painting the canvases, as in a theatre performance.
The Volume of Every Member of My Family, 2001 (4 cardboard boxes of various dimensions)
"During the summer of 2001, in the garden of my family home, I filled a tub with water, in which I measured the volume of everyone in my family – myself, my sister, mother and father. They climbed into the tub of lukewarm water and I then measured the water overflow which, according to Archimedes, corresponds to the volume of their bodies. With the measurements of that volume, I made rectangular box forms. They look like impersonal, semi-finished products prepared for processing and ready for packaging."
