Portrait of adolescent chaos. “Time Anatomy,” an exhibition by artist and photographer Hana Vojáčková

The photographic series "Time Anatomy" by Hana Vojáčková, presented at the Moneo Brock exhibition space, explores the bodily and emotional changes of adolescence through dance and photography.

To do so, Vojáčková followed three teenage dancers for five years, photographing them annually in the same poses, reflecting the way their bodies and body language evolved. The images reveal the inevitable passage of time, the resulting transformations, and the physical limitations that arise with growth.

TIME ANATOMY IKONIJA - REVERSE. 2016. Courtesy by Hana Vojáčková.

The first images are simple portraits of a changing face; later photographs show poses invented jointly by the dancers and the photographer. These poses are modified versions of dance vocabulary. As they grow and change, the girls must sometimes adapt their poses to the new limitations of the surrounding space. Other times, the new image shows little difference, appearing only as an attempt at repetition, like a retake of the previous year's photograph taken at the same moment.

This photographic series, which follows three dancers during a unique phase of life, does not follow a linear structure or a pattern of evolution. Although they were taken within a rigorous temporal framework and systematically composed, the changes appear random and unpredictable.

ANATOMY ANASTÁZIE - STANCE, 2013. Courtesy by Hana Vojáčková. 

Just as the physical passage through adolescence is dramatic, due to the rapid bodily transformations in search of new accents that appear and disappear, the exhibition defies any attempt at structure, organization, or control. A true allusion to chaotic adolescence.