How do we see the cityscape and its periphery? Can we read these as a composition of volumes pasted over with brand labels and messages? The appearance of our cities is a mirror image of the state of our culture.
People read and interpret the city based on a form of text written by the private sector and the state. What does our urban public space with the intention to consolidate and entrench a repressive system of control, turning citizens into consumers?
The edition of a photographer, Markéta Kinterová’s book at the AMU Press is part of a long-term strategy to support the creating of artist’s books, which is a relatively rare phenomenon domestically.
Markéta Kinterová (*1981) focuses on conceptual photography, oftentimes overlapping into public space.
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