JAKUB TAJOVSKY

Dirty heroes and Oriental beauties is an open series of poetic or diary interpretations of beauty and heroism. 

Beauty, as an ideal of aesthetic perfection, was in the past associated with exotism, fascination with foreign culture and something that is rarely attainable by humans.

Nowadays and in the European context of information and travel accessibility, oriental is no longer the exotic in the original sense of the word. On the other hand, we are increasingly confronted with the exoticism of interspecies dependence and geological conditionality.

At this point we learn to re-understand time and space and care for what we used to think we controlled.  

Basic categories such as good and evil, or beauty and heroism, were never dogmatic truths, but rather a tool for understanding the world. Heroism, in films, in culture or politics, is also no longer a prerequisite for moral sovereignty, but rather a manifestation of the will to change things despite the circumstances and experienced stereotypes. 

In this series, I try to technically and symbolically explore the mentioned categories, without the need to idealize or realistically define them, but with the intention of seeing and recording them in a new or forgotten light. 

The intention is to evoke in the subconscious mind ideas about the beauty of others and the sincerity of heroism. 

*Popular culture notwithstanding, not all heroism has to be dirty, and not all beauties have to be oriental.