ArtJunk
No. 30—2024

Response / Response

Natalie Czech

Info: In her conceptual photography, Natalie Czech (DE 1976) investigates the relationship between image and text and thus explores the possibilities of pictorial and linguistic symbols. In doing so, she engages in a tongue-in-cheek play with the power of images and the meaning of texts. In her works, she draws on aspects of pop- and conceptual art in order to place them in new dialogs with one another. She creates symbioses in which text and image penetrate, change and reinforce each other. Natalie Czech thus illuminates the potential of subjective forms of seeing, reading and speaking. In her new series Response / Response, Czech combines the non-verbal form of expression of the shaped canvas of modern color field painting with her own conceptual approach. (…)

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