Karla Šavrtková
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Karla Šavrtková
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Against Seeing

Against Seeing

2025

Questioning the reproduction of images of violence through language rather than direct representation. A work about historical trauma and the limits of seeing.

Leisure Time and Us

Leisure Time and Us

2024

A collaborative project with a senior day centre in Bratislava, exploring intergenerational dialogue and memory preservation through mobile photography workshops.

Patterns Within Us

Patterns Within Us

2024

Examining women’s experience in the Slovak post-socialist context, focusing on intergenerational contact and "patterns" in family memory. Fostering collaboration through engaging with the post-memory of the female generation.

Idealised Image of Disintegration

Idealised Image of Disintegration

2023

Project about 'Ostalgie' - an idealized view of the communist past through grandmother's memory. Examining selective memory, intergenerational dialogue, and social isolation of the elderly.

Care of Pain

Care of Pain

2022

Exploring family trauma through archival photographs of the 1945 bombing of Nitra. A reflection on memory, care, and the function of photographs depicting human horror.