Polaroids

Polaroids were quite rare in Czechoslovakia, so it’s noteworthy that Krumbachová used the medium freely. Her apartment was not just a hideout from the grey of the normalization era; a space for frequent visitors, work meetings, and consultations; a zoo for abandoned animals – but also a space for collective creative freedom and play, including the Polaroids (for example, together with art historian Miroslav Lamač. Some of the Polaroids capture fragments of bodies, objects, and household furniture, while others depict a game with the present that, thanks to instant photography, immediately sinks into the past – Krumbachová looking at recently taken photos in the bathtub with a glass of wine in her hand.