Roman Štětina was born in Kadaň (CZ) in 1986. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 2015 after spending two years on the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in the classes Judith Hopf and Douglas Gordon.
Roman Štětina’s work investigates the ways in which broadcast media including film, television and radio are created. His videos, installations and sculptures foreground the props, studios and technologies that are otherwise hidden behind the sounds and images received by an audience. This does not involve displaying the “unseen”, but rather the staging of typical production methods like editing or creating disruptions in absurd contexts. Another area to which Roman Štětina sometimes turns is genre cinematography. Re-edits which he creates through editorial interventions remove or, conversely, select one of the formal (pictorial or audio) components. The common feature of both of these lines is the discovery of new transformations in the viewer’s experience and shifts in the image, as well as “sidestepping” between divergent modes of presentation.
Roman Štětina has shown his work in exhibitions around the world including at the Trafó Gallery in Budapest in 2020, Tenderpixel in London in 2019, National Gallery in Prague in 2018, Spike Island in Bristol in 2016, NEST in Den Haag in 2016, MNAC in Bucharest in 2016, Manifesta 11 in Zurich in 2016 and James Cohan Gallery in New York in 2015. His films and video works were presented at International Film Festival Karlovy Vary, LUX London, Close_up Film Centre London, Anthology Film Archives in New York, Delfina Foundation London, PAF Olomouc, IDFF Ji.hlava, goEAST Wiesbaden, Modern Art Oxford, etc.
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