In “Photography \” Horáková/Maurer focus on the multifaceted relationship between photography and painting in their joint work. Since the early 1990s, the artist duo has been developing a visual language in which photographic precision and painterly gestures intertwine, questioning and expanding each other.
The exhibition presents key works from various phases of their work in which the boundary between photographic image and painterly intervention is deliberately blurred and the synergy becomes visible: the light in the ng40 studio; the sheet film; Ilfochrome Classic to silver gelatin prints; the photographic visualization of afterimages; the reflection on a daguerreotype; as well as pigment images with Russian green earth and pearl essence. The focus is never on a juxtaposition of the media, but rather on their productive interpenetration, in which new pictorial spaces, perspectives, and narrative forms emerge.
With this focus, the exhibition offers an in-depth insight into the artistic strategy of Horáková/Maurer, in which conceptual rigor and sensual visual power form a field of tension that invites reflection on perception, reality, and representation.