Google Your Melancholy

František Fekete / Czech Republic / 2017 / The film already had its Czech Premiere / 9 min.

synopsis

The video Google your melancholy explores how we construct our identities through the dynamic process of consuming images online. It is about inventing one’s own identity by looking at images of others. The work combines self-portraiture with appropriated photographs of androgynous models.

biography

František Fekete (born 1993) is an artist and curator. In 2020, he completed his master’s degree at FAMU’s Center for Audiovisual Studies in Prague. His artistic practice explores non-normative forms of masculinity and the image as a tool for inventing one’s own identity. From 2015 to 2022, he was one of the curators of the artist-run Galerie 35M2. He regularly writes about art and has edited several books. He currently works with tranzit.cz, a collective and contemporary art initiative.