body poem
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- body poem
- b&w photograph
- 24,7 × 17,7 cm
Jiří Valoch’s photographic portfolio is not very extensive; it arose for the most part between 1969 and 1974, and it was released in its entirety in the artist’s first monograph in the series “Poesia Visiva” (published by Benjamino Carruci, edited by Luciano Ori, Rome, 1974). The artist’s initial photographic projects marked a late-1960s return to the semantic aspects of words, and they were concerned with textual interventions on a body. Next came open-air textual interventions followed by minimalistic events in the open landscape that made it possible to apprehend the factors of time and coincidence. Most of the photographic documentation of Valoch’s events was done by Marie Kratochvílová, whose documentary work also encompassed the performances of J. H. Kocman, Marian Palla, and Dalibor Chatrný. Marie Kratochvílová is one of a few female artists who developed their own conceptually oriented photographic output during the 1970s. J.P.