Kunsthalle Praha chronicles pioneering Bauhaus photographer Lucia Moholy's lost legacy

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The Kunsthalle Praha is giving long-overdue recognition to Prague-born photographer and writer Lucia Moholy, who Bauhaus images helped shape contemporary visual culture.

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00:30She is one of the people who contributed to the Bauhaus, but she was never credited during

00:40the time the Bauhaus was recognized in the early 50s, 60s.

00:46Then she became more known, but in a little circle of people.

00:50And in the end, she did much more than being part of the Bauhaus.

00:54She had a life before, a life after, and it's all this extraordinary love, full of interest,

01:02of curiosity, on different topics, different technologies, that we wanted to present.

01:24So the installation number 30 consists of 330 glass plates, and they represent the place

01:31that were never returned to Lucia.

01:34I made it in 2016, I was in Berlin.

01:37I was thinking about Lucia running away from Berlin, from the Nazis, leaving behind 330

01:45glass plates that were too heavy and too fragile.

01:49But as I was thinking and contemplating about this story, outside on the street in 2016,

01:56there were over a million migrants coming from North Africa, Middle East.

02:02And so for me, Lucia was a way to acknowledge what's happening in Europe at that moment.

02:10I think this story is really about resilience, about not accepting to be rejected because

02:27of your gender, because of some assumption that you're not allowed to do certain things.

02:34So for example, to be in charge of technologies.

02:37She always tried to do what she wanted in a way, it's about freedom also.

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