ARTIST PROFILE

Romana Drdova

  • b. 1987
  • Currently in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Romana Drdova is a student of New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
Locomotion

Locomotion

  • 2014
  • mirrors, coloured organza

  • The highly reflective surface simulates multi-phase movements similar to how cameras capture light.

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    Locomotion | 2014

What questions regarding motion capture were asked at the time of the invention of the photographic image? What did the device use to capture moments for which the human eye could not create a frozen image? What perceptual methods can work, both in painting and realistic pictures, to distort or confuse the human point of view? Influenced by this topic, I presented my work as an experiment in my long-term interest with light. It is an installation of mirrors that deliberately work with this material, not for its aesthetic qualities, but for its characteristics as a highly reflective surface that simulates multi-phase movements, similar to how cameras capture light. Although the camera is omitted in my work, a visual impression of the situation is applied in reality directly on the spot.