Main exhibition
17. 1. 2025 - 2. 3. 2025
Photographers:
Eva Bystrianská
Lenka Grabicová
Jolana Havelková
Jana Hunterová
Gabriela Sauer Kolčavová
Tereza Kopelentová
Tereza Jobová
Wlasta Laura
Eva Mořická
Michaela Pospíšilová Králová
Bára Prášilová
Dita Pepe
Kateřina Sýsová
Petra Vlčková
Curator:
Alžběta Čermáková
The group exhibition Sister of a Sister of a Sister presents the work of fourteen women photographers who make up the first modern female Czech photoclub Sisters in Photography. As the name suggests, mutual support and motivation, cooperation and sharing of the creative process and experimentation is the principal bond between the group’s members. Their work is diverse, thematically rather disconnected. However, in themselves and in their shared purpose, the members bring mutual feminine solidarity into the art milieu of photography which tends to individualism and competition. They pick up the mostly male tradition of photoclubs, which goes back all the way to the beginning of the photographic medium, and following in the footsteps of foreign women photoclubs, they add in the feminist tradition of sisterhood. It is in this spirit and at their creative intersections that the collective wants to present itself in the future.
The fourteen photographers form a collective in which its members retain their autonomy in pursuing feminine as well as other subjects. Even though the former are present in their works somewhat as a matter of course, both the exhibition and the group are not putting themselves under the label of ‘female photography’, and so the feminist optics is only one of the many identities manifested by the club. Each author brings in her own experience, vision, and manner of working. Exploring the exhibition we thus pass through different worlds and perspectives as reflected by the opening text which lets the various characters and motifs from all the photographs speak and invites us to listen.