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Harkawik is pleased to announce our first exhibition with Czech-born, New York-based artist Marie Tomanova. On January 1, 2022, as most of us were contemplating the year ahead, Tomanova began a project that would test her relationship to the constructed image and her capacity for unrelenting self-scrutiny, and yield some of the most haunting, complicated, enigmatic images of recent memory. Three Empty Weeks in July is what emerged, so named for the weeks when she was inactive, a stretch that was left “open” to reference the halting and incomplete nature of the documentary tradition.
A close reader of these pictures can identify certain themes. Signifiers of truth and place are rendered illegible or indistinct. Tomanova often takes to a crouching or fetal position, as if the camera is an intruder, and the familiar safety of this pose an escape. She employs material often used to signify purity, or else suggest a connection between the female figure and prevailing views of natural…
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Harkawik is pleased to announce our first exhibition with Czech-born, New York-based artist Marie Tomanova. On January 1, 2022, as most of us were contemplating the year ahead, Tomanova began a project that would test her relationship to the constructed image and her capacity for unrelenting self-scrutiny, and yield some of the most haunting, complicated, enigmatic images of recent memory. Three Empty Weeks in July is what emerged, so named for the weeks when she was inactive, a stretch that was left “open” to reference the halting and incomplete nature of the documentary tradition.
A close reader of these pictures can identify certain themes. Signifiers of truth and place are rendered illegible or indistinct. Tomanova often takes to a crouching or fetal position, as if the camera is an intruder, and the familiar safety of this pose an escape. She employs material often used to signify purity, or else suggest a connection between the female figure and prevailing views of natural…
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