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Marketa Othova
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Czech photographer Markéta Othová (b.1968, Brno, Czechoslovakia) has been working with photography since the early 1990s, following her studies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, where she lives.
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Marketa Othova à la Photographers' Gallery
PARDON? Although Othová's photographs are almost exclusively black & white, her work does not fit into the traditional tropes of documentary or art photography with which the black & white medium is usually associated. Large in scale, low in resolution, unframed and pinned to the wall, her images are distinctly presented and structured through carefully edited linear and grid-like sequences interspersed with the occasional stand-alone photograph. Othová carefully groups together photographs taken from a back catalogue of images, sometimes taken over a number of years. Her intriguing juxtapositions of interiors, street scenes, landscapes and still lifes transform photographic observations into unsettling visual codes. In this way, Othová adjusts the context surrounding her ostensible subjects so...
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PARDON?
Although Othová's photographs are almost exclusively black & white, her work does not fit into the traditional tropes of documentary or art photography with which the black & white medium is usually associated. Large in scale, low in resolution, unframed and pinned to the wall, her images are distinctly presented and structured through carefully edited linear and grid-like sequences interspersed with the occasional stand-alone photograph.
Othová carefully groups together photographs taken from a back catalogue of images, sometimes taken over a number of years. Her intriguing juxtapositions of interiors, street scenes, landscapes and still lifes transform photographic observations into unsettling visual codes. In this way, Othová adjusts the context surrounding her ostensible subjects so...