Artist Statement
Tereza Zelenkova (b. 1985, Czech Republic) is an artist who works predominantly with black and white photography, creating series based on ephemeral and poetic relationships between the individual images. Her work often enquires into the possibility of myth within the rationally structured modern world.
The photographic medium with all its technical specificities, its affinity with darkness and co-existence in both the negative and positive spaces, its contradictions such as the one that photographs are linked to both death and immortality, its questionable relationship with objective representation, and above all its beauty that stems from the simplicity of image taking, lie at the core of her artistic practice. In her work, she often blends facts and fiction effortlessly, scrutinizing limits of photographic representation and the ways in which it can eloquently portray a subjective vision of the world without submitting viewer to one circumscribed reading of the work.
Tereza Zelenkova (b. 1985, Czech Republic) is an artist who works predominantly with black and white photography, creating series based on ephemeral and poetic relationships between the individual images. Her work often enquires into the possibility of myth within the rationally structured modern world.
She received her BA in Photographic Arts at the University of Westminster in London in 2010 and her MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art in London in 2012. She is a recipient of the Jerwood / Photoworks award (2014), the 1000 Words Magazine Award (2012), she was shortlisted for the Saatchi New Sensations 2012 award, and was finalist of Fresh Faced & Wild Eyed 2011 awarded by The Photographer’s Gallery in London. She has several self-published books as well as Supreme Vice published by Mörel Books (2011). Her self-published book, Index of Time (2012), made in collaboration with Peter Watkins, was selected as one of the best books of 2012 by Photo-Eye and her latest publication, The Absence of Myth (2013), was selected as one of the best black and white photo books of 2013 by Telegraph. Her work is in collections by Saatchi Gallery and Fotomuseum Winterthur.
She’s exhibited her work at various galleries and museums worldwide and her upcoming exhibitions for 2015 are at Jerwood Space (London, UK), Regeneration 3 (Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, CH), and “50 Years of British Photography” (Power Station of Art, Shanghai, CN). In the past she has exhibited at Galerie Jeleni (Prague, CZ), Legion TV (London, UK), Saatchi Gallery (London, UK), Unseen (Amsterdam, NL), Lianzhou Foto Festival (Lianzhou, China), Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (Perth, AU), Format Festival (Derby, UK), among others.
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