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Jakub Tulinger

Nominated by
Fotograf Zone
Visual collages are an imprint of the public space that is part of a historically important bastion zone in Tallinn. It reveals what is hidden behind many layers of material that is a silent witness to events. This material speaks to us in the language of holes, semi-detached and charred walls. It watches us through the ever-widening gap in matter, and appeals with some urgency to the casual passer-by to stop and think about the relationship to this place. We may have once created it for our own use, but now it has turned into something wildly unnecessary, suitable for overlapping with other layers of even wilder urban infrastructure. Project Extension is a glimpse through these layers and tries to use a visual metaphor to explore what such an artificial/natural conservation zone in the middle of the city symbolizes and how it can, as best as possible, be included in urban planning.
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The Artist
Jakub Tulinger
Nominated in
By
Fotograf Zone
Lives and Works in
Prague
Jakub Tulinger (b. 1996) is a graduate of the Department of Photography at FAMU. He took part in the collective exhibitions "The Theory of Tourism" at Prague's Fotograf Gallery (2024), "Drunken Forest" and "Scream to Be Heard" at Prague's AMU Gallery (both 2023). His work was also presented in the Other Visions selection at the PAF festival in Olomouc (2021 and 2023). Currently he is part of a residential program - Transformative Territories: Inter-Species Refuge at ARTMILL – Center For Regenerative Arts, South Bohemia. In his work, he has long devoted himself to the concept of testimony with its overlaps in materiality. He is interested in the relationship of man and material, architecture and landscape, and how these silent witnesses can speak to us. Using the tools of computer 3D graphics and animation together with the creation of books, he lends a voice to the materials and through the stories attempts to look at the problems of today.
More projects by this artist
2023

Sorry I am late, I was dealing with something in the valley (Assembly of Things)

A conversation of three entities talking about transformation of the landscape. In a 3D environment, we encounter traces left by man and individual items (garbage, advertising banners, etc.) begin to speak to us in their own language. In recent years at the borders of the Czech Republic and Poland, especially in the area of the Snieznik Mountains, Kłodzko and The Golden Mountains, there has been a rapid transformation of the landscape and mountain relief in order to „make“ nature more attractive especially for tourists. I see the lookout tower on the top of Śnieżnik Kłodzki as a metaphor for the multilayered nature of the problems associated with this place. In the long run, how will the (not only) surroundings of Śnieżnik Kłodzki change if there are more visitors coming to visit the man-made attractions? What will happen to natural territory if it is forced to give way to newly built infrastructure and civic amenities? What is natural now and what will we consider natural in the future? Just as we rise from the surface of the earth along the individual etchings of the lookout tower upwards, we can move through the surrounding landscape together with these entities and try to perceive and record the individual influences and transformations that take place across the entire spectrum of this organism.
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