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Klara Kusa
Photography and New Media Bachelor

Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava

Graduates: 2023

Specialisms: Installation/Sculpture / Photography / Sculpture

My location: Prague, Czech Republic

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Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava

Klara Kusa

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First Name: Klara

Last Name: Kusa

University / College: Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava

Course / Program: Photography and New Media Bachelor

Graduates: 2023

Specialisms: Installation/Sculpture / Photography / Sculpture

My Location: Prague, Czech Republic

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About

Klara Kusa is an emerging artist, activist, and a graduate student of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design. The artist appreciates techniques of appropriation, experimentation and upcycling/recycling of various objects and materials. She works with readymade objects and found materials/photographs in the space of a particular gallery or exhibition space. Her artistic practice is experimental, utilizing the tools and strategies of conceptual and post-conceptual art. In her work, she uses performative techniques of appropriation, while synthesizing several artistic mediums to create site-specific installations.

Notes from the post-spaces

The aim of the project Notes from the post-spaces is to highlight the pointlessness of the production of the artworks themselves. This is because production is an essential element of the capitalist system, even in the case of artefacts. The main motifs of the installation Notes from the post-spaces become the deconstruction of the found object and the search for the meaning of the word readymade in its structure, a structure where artificial matter becomes the base for grasping the meaning of the matter, specifically the meaning of the word “damage”, whereby the given attribute becomes essential to the matter. Notes from the post-spaces become notes to the pre-space or post-space. Both components are worn out, and destroyed by the constant exchange of artefacts. Notes from the post-spaces are thus notes on post-art, post-capitalist times occurring in the post-space. The fragmentation of today’s post-period and our existence in it is manifested through scraps of photographic material or pieces of styrofoam. The viewer thus becomes a post-observer in the post-studio. Dematerialisation is manifested precisely in its opposite, in the analysis of the matter. Paradoxically, this points to the importance of the matter in the sphere of post- conceptual art. Post-space is also a response to the existence of hyperobjects, it is the destroyed space of our planet. It makes no sense to occupy it with artefacts and produce more artworks. The aim of working with post-space and its supply lies in the recycling of material, the creation of an artefact out of an already existing artefact, and thus the creation of a post-artefact. Styrofoam, destroyed brick, thread, unmounted table, UV LED Box for cyanotype, chalk, instant drying ceramic matter, sound is available through headphones Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2023