from the Labyrinths series, 2004–2008, c-prints

LABYRINTHS

Eva Výborná is a creative artist who works with paint, graphics and the creation of objects, and who has been working primarily with photography since 1996. The artist photographs models made from white three dimensional geometric shapes that she creates herself. The objects are lit in various ways with artificial light and coloured filters and she also utilises the shift of daylight, as used in part in the Labyrinty (Labyrinths) exhibition series.

Thus variously complicated, defocused complexes are formed, suggestive of landscapes or architecture – an interweaving of various buildings and constructions. Some objects appear to have been recorded from a significant distance and height, while other photographs evoke a feeling of viewing a very close subject or microstructure.

The impossibility of determining scale and precise spatial orientation introduces uncertainty into the identification of place. Eva Výborná’s images are not merely impressive variations on recordings of geometric figures and light. By virtue of their lack of certainty of meaning they are capable of touching upon questions of a person’s relationship to the space and place within which they move and perhaps even find themselves lost.

– Jolana Havelková