Světlana Malinová’s graduation work began with texts that originated from her personal connection with the artists with whom she has collaborated as curator at the City Surfer Office gallery. In terms of format, however, these texts are not curatorial texts. They are notes, observations, stories layered into an essayistic narrative. Malinová explores the connections between the visual medium of photography and the text format, which she has not previously applied in her artistic practice but has separated from it.

She subliminally and intuitively constructs a story that she transmits onwards to the viewer, gradually choosing the final selection of texts and photographs – unpublished photographic records that she has accumulated over several years, taken as an afterthought while working on other, more important exhibitions. They are in the position of outsiders, created from the necessity of the situation and the importance of recording it. Her project’s unifying factor is the visual poetics of the photographs, whose often different subject matter results primarily from the time span over which they were taken.

Světlana Malinová has long created art that mixes photography, video, and visual media, although photography remains her main medium. Her work is multidisciplinary and focuses on curatorial and gallery practice or working with text. Her graduation project marks a return to the medium of photography and to her personal photographic archive.