post-absurdum
Klára Kusá’s solo exhibition post-absurdum serves as a register of the appearances of various modes of things in different stages of visibility. These elements emerge from the indistinct space between the idea of a library and an archive, generated not only in the artist’s mind but also through the interpretative experience of perceptive viewers. This creates a performative situation built on the artist’s hybrid strategies of conceptual art
and photography. The intervention involves both images and objects, the latter composed of deconstructed books and their spines, traces of their origin and content. We enter the “encapsulated” intimate space of the gallery alongside the artist, who understands public artistic expression as a repetition of the ritual of appropriation,
one with the potential to transform both the appropriator and the appropriated simultaneously. Repetition extends ad absurdum, reaching the threshold of the absurd, the incongruous, the deranged, the edge of the unfathomable, the lost, and the fragmented.
Lucia G. Stach, curator
Site-specific installation, ink and marker drawings, appropriated materials, including maps, scanned book spines, photographs, and torn pages from books sourced in the underground storage of the City Library in Bratislava, book covers, wood, stones, and found objects (such as glasses and a watch) already present in the gallery space.
Flatgallery, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2023
Book spine, photographic cones, archival photographs.
GAFU - Galerie Fakulty umeni, Ostrava, Czechia, 2023
