Jaroslav Kysa (SK)

The work of Jaroslav Kysa comprises objects, installations, photography and video, and all of the areas are characteristic of the author’s typical use of the appropriation and aesthetic perception not only of found common objects and commodities, but also of cuts-outs from everyday real events, both lively and banal. Jaroslav Kysa relativises the functionality of selected object or phenomenon by discovering its reverse sides, usually giving them a new function that shifts them into the sphere of art and the same time poses the question of where the boundary lies between art and common reality. He uses this strategy in his interventions into public spaces as well, where his efforts to evoke so-called “testing situations” – which emerge through corrections of the common side of reality – come to the foreground.

Jaroslav Kysa spent three months in Leipzig  in Halle 14 from September to November 2013.