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Fotonoviny is a quarterly newspaper published by The Central European House of Photography in Bratislava, Slovakia. In issue 55/21, Kvet Nguyen wrote a beautiful review about my thesis The Ambiguity of Visual Representations of Trauma and Catharsis. You can read the review and download the PDF here.
Linda Zhengová is a photographer from the Czech Republic who currently lives in the Netherlands. She has a very diverse background in terms of her academic career from her BA in International Studies at Leiden University in 2018 to her graduating from MA in Media Studies with a specialization in Film and Photographic Studies at Leiden University with distinction (cum laude) in 2019. And recently, she graduated from a Photography BA at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.
This interview is concerning her Graduation Show 2020 at The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague that took place at the institution from the 10th to the 13th of September 2020. In her show titled Catharsis, she explores the notion of her own suppressed trauma from her childhood. The entire project consists of a photographic installation and a book that accompanies it.
A Resistance of Normality Through Imagery: Queer Aesthetics and Contemporary Queer Photography
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INTRODUCTION
The study of affect has gained momentum since the 1990s, especially since scholars within cultural studies and film studies have indicated their interest in addressing affect in relation to the examination of the body and materiality. Since then, affect has been discussed in terms of physiological processes, energetic intensities, corporeality and form.[1] However, the lack of consensus over the term’s definition in academia makes it challenging, but also liberating to analyze a cultural object from an affective perspective. Within the academic sphere, a video artist that has utilized affect is Bill Viola, whose presence on the art scene became increasingly felt from the 1970s onwards.
INTRODUCTION
In 1986, one of the most disastrous nuclear power plant accidents in history took place. As a result of this nuclear spillover, known as the Chernobyl disaster, millions of people were affected by harmful radiation and the effects of this catastrophe are still felt today. In 2015 and 2016, Kazuma Obara, a Japanese documentary photographer, travelled to Pripyat, which is a city situated five kilometers away from where the initial explosion happened. It was there that he found an expired film that had been exposed to radiation within the area. He decided to use this film in his photography series Exposure (2015-2016), which considerably influenced the overall outcome of the work.