Lives
and works in Prague. Working with new media, she has been
exhibiting extensively in Europe and U.S. She has received many
grants and awards including International Studio Program in New
York, 1998. Most recently she has been representing Czech Republic
in Venice Biennale,1999.
text for the catalogue:
The core of work of Veronika Bromova lies in photography, often using computer manipulation (Beings) or adding objects (moving tables in Room in the Edge of Horizon or fury bear in Zemzoo). It is always herself or those around - her niece, sister or boyfriend, that are featured in her photos. Surprisingly the final results get far beoyond mere portraiture or narcisstic selfadoration. On the contrary she is able to keep a distance from her subjects in the process of exploration of human body, its limitations, desires and different forms.
She also has got an ability to shock the audience (as with her controversial series of innocent photos of her niece Rozarka or with the concept of Beings, weird morfed humans). Nevertheless the way she make them is reasoned more deeply than by a mere quest for sensation. She always has a question she asks herself and that could be seen throughout all her art.
For JEUX D'AMOUR we selected two works.
A fragment from the series ZEMZOO shows naked body of the artist suprested by sello tapes whilst its image is further deformed by mirroring effects. ZEMZOO project originally contained photographs, video and an object when it was created during Bromova's stipendium stay in New York. Whole installation was to be seen exhibited in Czech Pavillion during 1999' Vennice Biennale.
In photographic series LOVERS, both the artist and her boyfriend are captured in the most private moments that lovers share: experiencing bathing, dreaming, longing, tenderness of intimity, closeness and differences, and playing all those love games.
michaela vlkova, 1999
