Le Monde: Libuse Jarcovjakova, journal intime d’une Tchécoslovaque opprimée

The photographer’s first solo show in Berlin consists of photographs from the years in West Berlin just preceding the fall of the Wall. The enfant terrible of Czechoslovakian photography, Libuše Jarcovjáková, fled the dictatorship in Czechoslovakia to West Berlin in 1985. Before the backdrop of a divided city, she embarks on a desperate search for herself to find out if her flight really led her to internal and external freedom. She seeks out the faces and places that might help her to understand her new reality and embrace it. At night, she carries out her search in bars, while during the day she earns a bit of money through hard work. The closeness that she was familiar with, the humanity and warmth that existed despite the political regimentation back home, is something she fails to find. She constantly battles loneliness, yet throughout this time, she records everything in photographs and words. The images come about as though thoughtlessly on impulse, but they nonetheless have a sense of order and harmony.

The photographer’s first solo show in Berlin consists of photographs from the years in West Berlin just preceding the fall of the Wall.

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