TextsHynek Alt

Media Specific

Aleksandra Vajd and Hynek Alt. 2011. “Media Specific.” In Aleksandra Vajd and Hynek Alt, Works 2001–2011. Portfolio, October 2011.

Our work is based on gathering the visual elements of our immediate surroundings,
stripping them from the original meaning and seek connections, analogies and
shifts between images in new sequences built as autonomous parts of reality,
statements, short narratives. It is an open ended project, where we try to question
theoretical questions addressed by postmodern art, such as questions of
originality, subjectivity, singularity, issues of the simulacra, stereotype, social and
sexual identity, serial repetition, appropriation, inter-textuality, simulation, rejection
of the illusory autonomy of the artwork etc. From that postmodern approach
the very nature of reproduction and representation as constituent aspects of
photography are thrown into doubt. Simulation becomes the new paradigm of
an image, and thus also of photography. The working process is a permanent
dispute with photography itself and with photography related issues (simulation,
photography as evidence, subjectivity and objectivity in documentation, image in
an image).