Dóra Maurer, Parallel Systems

Dóra Maurer’s first solo exhibition in Prague is comprised of earlier works from the 1970s and 1980s representing the wide variety of media that she consistently worked with throughout this period, demonstrating and systematically scrutinizing the motives and ideas that have been the ongoing focus of her artistic attention and praxis over the years. The title of the show, “Parallel Systems”, relates to leitmotifs that are relevant in all of the exhibited pieces - a confrontation between the different order of systems, the overlapping of divergent formal and mathematical patterns and the sensual experience of perceiving the disturbed, fragmented and constrained images of reality. 
Her experimental 16mm color film from 1989-90 entitled Inter-Images 1-3 consists of three independent works exploiting the visual effects of the zoetrope (one of several pre-film animation devices that shows a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion), where she analyzes the nature of visual perception from three different dimensions. 
Another group of works in the exhibition (Five out of Three from1979 and Four out of Three from 1976) works with the mathematical pattern of shifting, called displacement, which Dóra Maurer uses to create sequences of identical forms - squares - and confronts these systems with sequences and elements of different proportions. 
Curated by Barnabas Bencsik.