Marianna Mlynárčiková & Nóra Ružičková VÝSTAVA Galerie Art
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Marianna Mlynárčiková & Nóra Ružičková VÝSTAVA Galerie Art
Both projects originated in cooperation with Theatre from the Passage, which focuses on work with people whose brains are wired differently. Video-performance and leporello reflect the world from the position of gender and mentallyconditioned difference. The world is represented by monographs from Slovak artists. Actresses Miriam Kujanová and Dana Snopková use them in their performances as props. They are treating bulky books, which tend to symbolize spiritual achievement, as purely physical objects – using them as sports equipment and/or building material. The actresses – which do not conform to what our culture considers mental and physical ideal – are thus demonstrating “incorrect” usage of the monographs, which means they are in a way affirming their difference and position of an outsider. It is really an agreement offering an ironising and critical dimension of not just world of art, but also in wider sense the social world with its power-driven structures and practices (the marking of difference, exclusion).
Marianna Mlynárčiková (1971) studied art and philosophy at the MBU Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences in Banská Bystrica and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. She lives in Banská Bystrica and Salak Phet in Thailand. Nóra Ružičková (1977) graduated from Painting and Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava where she currently runs an atelier at the Department of Intermedia. They have been collaborating since 2004, mostly focusing on work with appropriated texts and images as well as participation projects in collaboration with selected communities. They are themetasing the context of art, its relationships with amateur discourse and life, and creatively researching various interdisciplinary overlaps.
Falomonographic Tower — 2016, video, full HD, 13'' 47'
Exercising with Monographs — 2016, publication to take away, 24 pages, format A5, coloured offset
