Valoch Jiří *1946

Pronouncing the word nugget, 1970

photo action, a series of six black and white photographs, each 14,8 × 21 cm, glass, frame, edition of 12 multiples, 10/12
Jiří Valoch's lifelong work from the mid-1960s developed in the fields of visual poetry and conceptual work, the main theme of which is the exploration of language, the written word and its semantic meanings. Textual records have taken on various forms throughout his artistic career. forms. In the late 1960s, Valoch left the space of visual poetry for minimal actions and photographic cycles in which he placed the isolated word in photographic records of nature, associated with the human body (body poems) or explored the phonetic form of individual words in photographic actions. An example of Valoch's conceptual work with phonemes is the work entitled Pronouncing the word lump from 1970, which included a performative action in which the author articulated individual syllables of a given word and documented their form photographically. The recording of the selected word differs fundamentally in its written and oral form and presents the possibility of a different perception of the concept with an identical meaning. Attached is the author's certificate of authenticity.