For Jarcovják, photography is an inner need, a self-therapeutic process, a very authentic exploration of place, time, who she is, and where she is. Her photographs are characterized by clearly profiled handwriting, presenting raw, visually powerful images, often black and white, analog, which sometimes contrast with the color mobile phone photos that are also part of her work. The themes of the artist's photographs are common - the street, the night, relationships, work, depression - but it is the raw ordinariness mixed with poetics that leaves an unusually strong impression on the audience. Jarcovjáková presents her subjective point of view, which, however, speaks about time and life with a degree of openness that allows the viewer to empathize with her photographs and accept them as their own.

Bio

Libuše Jarcovjáková is currently one of the most influential and visible Czech photographers at home and abroad. In recent years, she has received attention thanks to a number of international exhibitions, for example in Arles, France, where she headlined the 50th edition of the famous Les Rencontres d'Arles, or, more recently, thanks to her participation in the exhibition Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s - 1980s at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, USA. Libuše Jarcovjáková (*1952) graduated from FAMU in Prague. For many years she photographed the Roma and Vietnamese community in Czechoslovakia and the famous Prague LGBTQ bar, T-Club. After 1985 she legally moved to West Berlin. After returning to the Czech Republic in 1992, she began teaching photography at a number of art colleges. Her original photography books Black Years (2017) and Evokativ (2019) are among the gems of their genre.