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Eva Kot’átkovà
Born in 1982 in Prague, where she lives and works
The dense, surrealist world of Eva Kot’átkovà’s installations and performances has the charm of a fascinating cabinet of curiosities full of strata of images, personal stories and enigmatic objects. Taking an almost archaeological approach and stimulated by a keen interest in institutions (administrative, psychiatric and educational) and the theatre, Eva Kot’átkovà creates symbolically intense immersive environments in which appropriated photographs, drawings, collages and photomontages share the stage with elements both recuperated and fabricated.
Her project began with her discovery, in the museum of medical instruments at the Hôtel-Dieu, of a drawing by the child of Dr. Anne Boucays, a girl aged nine at the time, showing heart surgery being carried out on her father in Toulouse in 1959. Around this Kot’átkovà conceived a multimedia installation comprising, among other elements, puppets, whose anatomical theatre performs a strange operation in which the patient’s body is absent.