The return to times long past and the aesthetics of the 19th century, but also of antiquity, which can both have a relatively contemporary look, are aspects that have been present in Tereza Zelenková's work continuously. The search for myths, subtle or even heavily symbolic references envelops her photographs with a distinctive weight of their own kind, something intrinsically linked to the Old Continent and its history as a tangible part of it. The absence of myth could be characterized as something that society is currently experiencing, and despite this, author tries to do the opposite, to breathe a hint of life into them for a moment.

Bio

Tereza Zelenková is a Czech visual artist and photographer living and working between London and Prague. Between 2007 and 2010, she studied photography at the University of Westminster and later graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2012. She is regarded as one of the most internationally recognised Czech photographers of her generation, with work regularly presented at leading institutions across Europe and North America. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Foam Photography Museum in Amsterdam, Whitechapel Gallery in London, and Campbell House Museum in Toronto. Her photographs are held in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Foam Photography Museum, Musée de l’Élysée in Lausanne, and Fotomuseum Winterthur. She is the author of the photobooks Supreme Vice (2011) and The Essential Solitude (2021).