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Cancelled Stop
5. 9. — 13. 10. 2013

With its installation, the exhibition aims to invert the customs associated with the Josef Sudek Studio.
Cancelled Stop
The cancellation of a bus stop or a tram stop is a banality, something we regularly encounter without paying much thought to. At least until the moment it clashes with our daily routine. Then it earns our protests and censure. But we may also come across a relocated tram stop or bus stop out of the blue, unexpectedly, in a place we know like the back of our hands, somewhere we have been returning to for years. Then our reaction is one of surprise, opening the gate for a stream of memories. What we once considered ordinary is suddenly absent, leading to feelings of nostalgia and melancholy.
The works of Adéla Leinweberová balance on the boundary of banality (of something usual and overlooked) and the catalyst of emotion. Through her camera we become observers, voyeurs of everyday little etudes in which nothing is unusual and yet is full of intense pathos, regardless of whether the scene is from Prague, Barcelona, or Venice.
In her video-poems, most of which are nearly static, Adéla observes the individual and his or her involuntary solitude and efforts to overcome it. Adéla invents nothing; she only chooses from the images around her. In her videos she merely confirms the existence of the world, which she aesthetically supplements with photographs of window curtains and symbolically adds to with the artefact of an abandoned hornet’s nest.
With its installation, the exhibition aims to invert the customs associated with the Josef Sudek Studio, and thereby to stimulate the viewer to perceive the banal in a new light. In her art, Adéla Leinweberová has long used humour and a touch of irony to reveal powerful emotions linked with intimacy, and as a side-effect she has created here a monologue of works that are studies in solitude from many of angles, including unwanted, undeserved, and even necessary solitude.
Tereza Jindrová
Exhibition curator
Works on display (a selection)
Exhibition opening
Adéla Leinweberová
*1985 , Prahastudios
2012FAMU, Katedra fotografie, Ateliér Roberta Portela, magisterské studium (2009-2012) 2012Musrara, Naggar School of Art, Jeruzalém, Izrael, studijní stáž 2011Middlesex University, Fine Art Department, Londýn, studijní stáž 2009FAMU, Katedra fotografie, Ateliér Štěpána Grygara, bakalářské studium (2006-2009)selected individual exhibitions
2018Spolu sami, Čítárna Unijazzu, Praha 2016Lukostřelba, Galerie Vinohradská 12, PrahaŽenské v(j)ecy, Galerie umění Karlovy Vary, Letohrádek 2015Návaznosti, Galerie 4, Cheb 2013Zrušená zastávka, Ateliér Josefa Sudka, Praha 2012PV in NTK, Galerie Národní technické knihovny, Praha
Éterická fatálnost okamžiku, FAMU Palác Lažanských, PrahaPrague Photo Festival, Galerie DOX, Praha 2011A co by tomu řekl Antonioni?, Galerie Open, Měsíc fotografie, Bratislava
Prsty v medu, Galerie Velryba, Praha, samostatná výstava
Nesnesitelná lehkost, Galerie AM 180, Praha
FAMUfest Beztíže, Galerie GAMU, Praha 2010Prague Photo Festival, Výstavní síň Mánes, Praha
Studio Kamarád, Galerie Slavie, Náchod, samostatná výstava
Soukromé dílny, Galerie AVU, Praha
PhotoMeetings, výstava a workshop, Luxembourg
Outer Space, Galerie G4, Cheb / Galerie Solnice, České Budějovice 2009Prague Photo Festival, Výstavní síň Mánes, Praha
Narozeninový den, Galerie Kotva, České Budějovice, samostatná výstava
Osamělí mladí muži, Café Steiner, Brno, samostatná výstava
Šestka / Six, Galerie PHP, Praha
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