ARTIST PROFILE

Lucia Scerankova

  • Slovakia (b. 1985 in Košice)
  • Currently in Prague and London, United Kingdom.

REPRESENTATION

Book

Book

  • 2016
  • Object of the book, 96 pages

  • 34 vogl
  • 31 vogls
  • 35a vogl
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    VOGL | 2016

A book created for the project VOGL. A cooperative exhibition project and initiative by Klára Hosnedlová, in the role of artist and fashion designer; Lucia Sceranková, as photographer and book author; Igor Hosnedl, as exhibition architect; and Anymade Studio as graphic designers. The artists and their model entered the home of Dr. Vogl in Pilsen to explore modernism, not through a conceptual lens or as social critique, but rather to experience and delve into the materiality of the times and interiors of Adolf Loos. Lucia Sceranková, who Klára Hosnedlová invited to cooperate on this project, photographs arranged situations in several of Loos’ apartments, both as documentation for Hosnedlová’s embroidery and also for her independent creative expression presented at the exhibition as an artist’s book. Sceranková´s book of photographs was be presented as a jewel in the intellectual household, surrounded by its particular aura and placed in the imaginary interior of an apartment at hunt kastner. The book contains no text, refusing the hegemony of words and choosing, instead, the images and their motifs. It does not attempt to surprise with originality, citations and unexpected turns but rather, tries to capture transient states, continuity, mental and spatial connections and collective authorship. The book consists of three pictorial genres. It is dominated by views of the interiors, where our attention focuses on the details of the materials (stone, wood, metal, mirror, fabric), on the girl’s clothing and the beauty of the human form, casting a certain liveliness onto Loos’ canon of architectonic designs. Other views make absolute the colors captured from various materials in the apartment, as well as from the woman’s clothing and skin tone, thus creating a photographic picture purely of color and tone. The third component comprises a view into nature itself, an ornament that Loos allows and the basis for materiality in Loos’ interiors, which, on this level, maintains the intertwined state of modern man/woman with nature, even if transferred into the artificial world of the dwelling.(text by curator Edith Jeřábková)