Description
In her new series of screen prints, Klara Kracina works from found photographs. The series is an album of photographs showing four unknown ladies on excursions in botanical gardens. She combines these with pieces of paper she finds on the floor, most often the lists we use when shopping. From them, she learns about the everyday lives of people she does not know and imagines their habits. She connects the anonymity of the photos and found shopping lists into a new, multi-layered story, a whole of hitherto unrelated information. The resulting works are, on the one hand, mysterious, as they remain anonymous, and the stories behind them are unknown to the artist and the viewer, and on the other hand, they carry a kind of familiarity. The artist even says that she experiences them with some nostalgia, even though she does not know the mysterious protagonists. Such an impression can be attributed to the pleasant predictability of routine and the well-known desire to preserve fond memories.