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Jiří Valoch pronouncing the word „hrouda“

Jiří Valoch pronouncing the word „hrouda“
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    • Jiří Valoch pronouncing the word „hrouda“
  • 1970/2015
  • 6 b&w photographs
  • 21 × 14,7 cm
By this point, Jiří Valoch’s exclusive use of the typewriter had been joined by new artistic techniques that, alongside drawing, primarily involved working with photography. He focused mainly on the photographical documentation of verbal interventions in “different” spheres (nature, the human body), verbal interventions on negatives, and the quasisemantic ordering of photographic sequences (in his photographic series “Haiku”). This series, which photographically documents his uttering the word “hrouda” (pile), was presented as part of the exhibition “Arte de sistemas” (1971, CAyC, Buenos Aires). J.P.