Emila MEDKOVÁ.

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Emila MEDKOVÁ.
Cascade de cheveux. 1949. Photographie originale, tirage argentique, signée, datée et titrée au dos (38 x 29 cm). Image emblématique des débuts d'Emila Medková (1928-1985). Photographe pragoise, figure centrale du groupe surréaliste tchèque d'après-guerre, Emila Medková (1928-1985) a été formée par Josef Ehm à l'école des Beaux-Arts de Prague. Directement inspirée du Mythe de la lumière de Toyen (1946), "Cascade of Hair, like many of Medková's Shadowplay cycle of photographs from the late 1940s, rehearses uncomfortable apparitions, the migration of meanings between objects (egg/ eye, water/hair), and the rudderless drift between the natural and human worlds familiar from much surrealist painting of the 1930s. [...] The work of Emila Medková represents one of the most sustained and critically engaged examples of surrealist documentary photography, although it has been seen only rarely outside of the Czech Republic in either exhibition or reproduction [...]. Born in 1928 and active from the late 1940s until a few years before her death in 1985, this invisibility echoes the phantom existence of the post-war Czech surrealist group of which she was a central member, a fascinating and dynamic intellectual circle which over the period in question enjoyed no more than a few years of public existence, the remaining three decades being spent underground" (Krzysztof Fija?kowski, Emila Medková: The Magic of Despair, in Tate Papers, nº 4, Autumn 2005, en ligne: www.tate.org.uk).
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