In his video Free Man / Restricted Man, Leevi Toija, a photography student at Prague’s FAMU, presents a modern nomadic perspective on experiences with a space that can be described as neither urban nor landscape. Supermodern road corridors, travel paths that once allowed for extraordinarily romanticised freedom, are now restricted by time limits and mandatory breaks. Marc Augé’s anthropological dialectic of the non-place is thus reflected in the experience of the driver sitting in the cabin of a truck. Toija’s work invites us to understand the unknown and explore a way of life that seems distant to most of us. “I’ve been to so many different places. Almost too many. I can’t even remember all the places I’ve been to. I remember this one time – I was about to start a tour.”
Free Man / Restricted Man
Opening
15 Oct 2020 6 pm
The exhibition continues
16 Oct – 5 Nov 2020
Artists
Leevi Toija
Leevi Toija (*1998, Helsinki, FI) currently studies photography at the new aesthetics studio of FAMU in Prague. Keen to express a dissenting view on our contemporary society, he focuses on the afflictions of individuals. Leevi Toija uses a variety of media from moving and still images to the creation of 3D objects.
Curators
Zuzana Dusilová
Mariana Pecháčková
Eva Slabá
Mariana Pecháčková
Eva Slabá
Venue
Nika Gallery
metro line B vestibul – Palackého náměstí exit – Prague 2
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http://umprum.cz/galerie-nika
metro line B vestibul – Palackého náměstí exit – Prague 2
nonstop
http://umprum.cz/galerie-nika