Artists Eva Kot’átková
Date February 7 – May 15, 2025
Venue Sapieha Palace, Vilnius
Photography Andrej Vasilenko. Images courtesy of the artist and Sapieha Palace, Vilnius
Based on documentary material and the artist’s own research, Interviews with the Monster (2021) examines mechanisms of discrimination and exclusion, the pressures of normativity, and the unfounded, inert fear that arises when confronted with what appears to be different and incomprehensible. The ‘monster’ in Kot’átková’s work is not ‘the other’ but rather an embodiment of learned anxieties and irrational fears.
Eva Kot’átková (1982, Prague) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague with a Master’s degree and obtained her PhD from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. She is the co-founder of the platform Institute of Anxiety, a space for collaboration between artists, theorists and activists that sees anxiety as a result of social, political, economic and ecological forces. It argues that there is a potential for positive change both in attempting structural changes and system critique but also in diverse acts of sharing.
