Jaromir Funke – Po Karnevalu (1924) on a Gallery Wall

5 October 2017 · Paris

A framed silver gelatin print by Jaromir Funke hangs on a white museum wall, its wall label reading Po Karnevalu, 1924. Inside the frame, two faces merge through a double exposure — diagonal geometric lines cutting across the composition, the figures half-present, half-dissolved. Funke was one of the leading voices of Czech avant-garde photography, and this print shows exactly why: the technique is rigorous, but what it produces is unsettling and tender at once.