Exhibition Táňa Hojčová "A Split Second In Time"

Táňa Hojčová is actually a theater photographer. Although she photographs the sky and its physical and optical phenomena, she stages a theater full of dramatic twists and unpredictable outcomes. What is up is also down and vice versa. The universe is in a grain of sand. Faces are the universe, everything that has happened and will happen are written in them. And we, who wear them, only complement the director’s intention of the actors’ performance on stage. The theater is called the Globe and the piece is called Life. The place and time have been determined and the movement prescribed, as in Kabuki theater. The place is Earth and the time is elastic. And photography captures the elasticity of split seconds that become ages until they cross the horizon of the event somewhere in eternal eternity.

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If you look at a person in a portrait, do you see them or yourself? Do you see the present or the past? Everyone likes to look at people’s portraits; a portrait is a mirror of time, in it we see both what we have gained and what we have lost. And when the photographer is attentive, and Táňa Hojčová is, she notices the special glow between the outside and the inside. How we appear to ourselves and others and the light that we are. It’s just a matter of aperture and exposure. Photography is drawing with light, or better to say with shadow.

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The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Municipal Library of Piešťany and the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum.