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Eliška Klimešová - Women Readers, Self published, 2025, Czech Republic

 

Soft cover, cover with hand made blind stamping, numbered, edition of 10 copies, design by Eliška Klimešová.
   
“The image of a reading woman is far from neutral. Repeated, staged, captured in passing – it recurs so often that it becomes an archetype. A quiet act that folds in emancipation, ideology, politics, romance, education, domesticity – or resistance. In the zine I tried to highlight this motif and how it’s changing by the time and moving from painting into photography.
To work with the archive, it is sometimes important to focus not so much on what it shows, but rather on what it hides. I decided to re-photograph and physically manipulate those archival images to emphasize again their materiality and new possible ways of re-reading and re-conceptualizing them.”

https://eliskaklimesova.cz/Women-Readers

Pages: 70
Place: Czech Republic
Year: 2025
Publisher: Self published
Size: 22 x 31 cm (approx.)







Eliška Klimešová Women Readers

Eliška Klimešová Women Readers

Eliška Klimešová Women Readers

Eliška Klimešová Women Readers

Eliška Klimešová Women Readers

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Soft cover, cover with hand made blind stamping, numbered, edition of 10 copies, design by Eliška Klimešová.
   
“The image of a reading woman is far from neutral. Repeated, staged, captured in passing – it recurs so often that it becomes an archetype. A quiet act that folds in emancipation, ideology, politics, romance, education, domesticity – or resistance. In the zine I tried to highlight this motif and how it’s changing by the time and moving from painting into photography.
To work with the archive, it is sometimes important to focus not so much on what it shows, but rather on what it hides. I decided to re-photograph and physically manipulate those archival images to emphasize again their materiality and new possible ways of re-reading and re-conceptualizing them.”

https://eliskaklimesova.cz/Women-Readers

Pages: 70
Place: Czech Republic
Year: 2025
Publisher: Self published
Size: 22 x 31 cm (approx.)