Václav Kopecký studied photography at the Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem (under Pavel Baňka) and at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague (under Aleksandra Vajd and Hyněk Alt). He continuously approaches photography not only as a tool of reflection of reality but also as a physical object that fills up the space and changes our perspective. He analyses photography as a medium of memory related to a specific history and technology; in his exhibitions, he alludes to a closed world that follows its own rules. He processes his photographs by means of traditional methods as if trying to make the best of the nostalgia related to analogue photography. He considers the photographic medium as a way of perceiving the world to which he seeks various parallels, e.g.in the form of a found imprint, a record of light, a redirection of our view. He approaches the installation of the exhibition in a similar way, for instance by using a photosensitive emulsion to let the installation make its own imprint on the gallery walls.

 Hana Buddeus