THE CROWN LETTER – Exhibition in Prague 2023
THE CROWN LETTER
๐พ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐
๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐? ๐ป๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐.
Francouzskรฝ institut v Praze
ล tฤpรกnskรก 35, 110 00 Praha 1
Admission free
Vernissage 13th Sept from 5pm
Dates: 13th Sept to 4 Oct 2023
Opening hours: Mon-Sat 10 am – 8 pm
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Artists : Susan E. BARNET, Maithili BAVKAR, Anne BRUNSWIC, Adriana BUSTOS, Michelle DEIGNAN, Liza DIMBLEBY, Anne DUBOS, Cornelia EICHHORN, Dettie FLYNN, Claire-Jeanne JรZรQUEL, Kyoko KASUYA, Choi-Ahoi KYUNG-HWA, Saviya LOPES, Ruth MACLENNAN, Ana MENDES, Maricarmen MERINO, Aurelia MIHAI, Manuela MORGAINE, Neringa NAUJOKAITE, Natacha NISIC, Kasia OZGA, Catherine RADOSA, Luise SCHRรDER, Esther SHALEV-GERZ, Katja STUKE, Catalina SWINBURN, Valeria TRUBINA, Ivana VOLLARO, Emma WOFFENDEN.
Kino35 program : Maithili BAVKAR, Michelle DEIGNAN, Kyoko KASUYA, Ruth MACLENNAN, Maricarmen MERINO, Aurelia MIHAI, Manuela MORGAINE, Natacha NISIC, Kasia OZGA, Sudha PADMAJA FRANCIS, Catherine RADOSA, Luise SCHRรDER.
The artistโs collective THE CROWN LETTER looks to the future to imagine a desirable world. Yes, there will still be reasons to dance tomorrow; if need be, we’ll invent them. The concept for this exhibition-manifesto of contemporary art was developed in June-July 2023 as part of a residency in ฤeskรก Skalice supported by Luxfer Gallery. It has been specially designed to fit in with the unique architecture of the Institut franรงais de Prague.
The exhibition consists of a landscape of almost 150 frames laid out on the floor, original black and white graphic works that form the manifesto itself, and photographs selected from the extensive archives of The Crown Letter website.
This exhibition is the work of an international collective initiated by the French artist Nata-cha Nisic in the spring of 2020, in the early months of the Covid 19 epidemic. At the time, the silence was overwhelming and the solitude immense. Faced with the heightened risk of women artists being stifled and invisible, she quickly set about building a participatory platform, independent of any institution, Around fifty women artists from twenty countries, from Argentina to Japan, as well as the UK, Germany and France, swiftly responded to carry out the project.
THE CROWN LETTER website has been online and on social networks for over three years, and it’s holding firm. Each week it publishes a letter featuring a range of original and previously unreleased works: photographs, videos, drawings and texts. In September 2023, it publishes its Letter No. 160. Its archive amounts nearly a thousand works. The artistic collective has already exhibited on many continents: Photo Days in the streets of Paris, Fondation Fiminco in Romainville (France), BienalSur in Argentina and Uruguay, Institut franรงais in Kyoto (Japan).
To complement the exhibition, ๐ผ๐ป ๐ญ๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฏ, ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฑ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐บ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐ณ๐ถ๐น๐บ๐ ๐ฏ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ช๐ก ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ. The programme is divided in four sections: ยซย Our Bodiesย ยป, ยซย Behind the Scenesย ยป, ยซย Memoriesย ยป and ยซย Making Landscapesย ยป (total length 90 minutes).
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Co-production: Institut franรงais de Prague (Sarah Doignon), Gallery Luxfer in ฤeskรก Skalice (Roman Rejhold), THE CROWN LETTER.