The unusual form of the "book" in the form of loose sheets of paper bound together with a clip, reminds me of a medical file at the doctor's office. Record. The technical condition was to pause the computer, and focus on the manual activity of pasting photographs which represents a form of self-therapy and freedom of creativity. The images are taken with a smartphone and tend to be chronologically related. The caption "I am gonna live my life" is a phrase taken from the cover of the diary, which i saw it in fashion store... This health diary links photography to everyday life through a powerful personal experience.
Barbora Bačová
Barbora Bacova is a Slovak photographer, born on in Košice. She studied photography at the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art in Univeristy of West Bohemia in Pilsen.
Her work is dominated by authentic recording of everyday situations with poetic- geometric narrative overlaps. The themes touch on temporality, imagination, fiction, and the search for new image contexts (re-evalution of image). Unformal documentary images are diversfield with abstract or stylized „cut-outs“ of the everyday colors. ". The conscious disruption of the timeline opens up the possibility of individual interpretation, which the viewer can understand as he or she wishes - without time constraints. Barbora in last years is interested in the relationship between static image and the moving image. Her inspiration often comes from eastern Slovakia, personal experience, the theme of growing up and aging, home, landscape, spending leisure time and health care.
She has participated in joint exhibition projects in France, Germany, Slovakia, Czech Rupublic and others. She participated in Pla(t)form 2020 in the Swiss Fotomuseum Winterthur, where she was selected along with 42 artists. Barbora Bacova actually lives and works in Košice.
