Lenka Glisniková

About Lenka Glisniková

For her work from the series 'You Could Feel the Friendly Stranger', mostly composed from found footage of electrical devices, Lenka Glisníková has activated a kind of terminal for travelling through space and thus also for manipulating and shaping this dimension. She utilises the fact that the camera and the photographic image drastically reduce the three dimensions of space to two. The images of reality become surfaces. The camera robs the world of its spatiality. At the same time, the camera outwits the dimension of time. It simply captures moments and pulls them out of the course of all things. It can  simply freeze processes that happen extremely quickly and that our eyes cannot even register.
To the reproductions, images or completely artificially created flat representations of the real, the invented, the
newly, Lenka Glisníková adds the dissolved dimensions like a sculptor.
The surface becomes spatial, real, it becomes an object with three dimensions and turns the present into the future.
The present is getting shorter and shorter. It simply has no more time. The unmeasurable moment of the present, of ‘here and now’ has retreated from time. It has been displaced by an anticipated future. This creates space for time travel because the dimension of time has shrunk and there is hardly any distance between the present and the future.