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Dům U Zlatého prstenu /The Golden Ring/
09/09 - 10/10, 2010
Tue – Sun 10.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m.
Jan Pfeiffer's (*1984) latest video Kruhová cesta /Circular trip/ presents the second instalment of City
Gallery Prague's Start-up cycle. The work was produced during a scholarship at Cooper Union in New York. It is
a self-portrait in a moving image. A description of the set-up seems simple:
the artist runs around the camera, the setting around it is shrouded in darkness and the figure of the runner
is dim, barely discernible.
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Without our knowing the artist's exact motivation, we find ourselves in the middle
of his imaginary circle. The running figure, with its physical existence, is endeavouring to comprehend the
sensation from the situation which he was witness to, and which he gradually envelops with the movement of
his body.
We become part of an unspecified action which we are involved in without reason, in the same way as the artist
earlier. Rational thoughts, which would help us make the action clear, come to nothing. We find ourselves
in the scene of the action together with the unknown man, in the centre of an imaginary event. We become
passive actors in a story and at the same time accomplices on a journey through time.
Admission: free
Exhibition curator: Sandra Baborovská
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