Komíny / Chimneys

From 2000 onwards, Klodová began to produce her own pornographic pseudo-magazines. The basic concept involves using an ambiguous element that, within a certain context, might resemble the female and male sexual organs or sexual positions. These magazines are based on absurdity and humour. In the first issue, entitled Bříza / Birch (2000), Klodová collected photographs of the trunks and branches of birches, which she dressed in skirts and thus invested with an almost erotic charge. In the issue entitled Komíny / Chimneys (2001) she again focused on industrial chimney stacks, emphasising their phallic shape as well as their ubiquity in industrialised landscapes. An important element of both issues was the manipulation of photographs so as to underline their sexualised character, as well as the use of text limited to double-edged slogans and phrases.

Both issues of the magazine are focused on desire, objectification, as well as on the very view that seeks out, recognises and observes this object of desire. The way that in this situation an anthropomorphised inanimate object becomes such an object of desire, means the gaze, expectations and imagination of the artist and the viewer are rendered visible.