In her large photograms, Alžběta Wolfová
displays compositions inspired by the world of laboratories and organic
specimen manipulation. By moving her subjects from the “scientific to the
photographic lab,” their meaning is displaced as well.
The
relationships between humans and animals, as well as the way humans chose to
represent them, are themes crucial to Wolfová’s work. According to Marjorie
Bertin, “The artificial staging of the element also questions the notion of
animal-machine that mechanises nature and transforms the body into a complex
assembly of cogs and machinery.”
