Veronika Bromova
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'''Veronika Bromova''' is one of the [[Czech Republic]]'s most honoured and popular new-media artists. She lives and works in [[Prague]]. Working with new media, she has exhibited extensively in [[Europe]] and the [[United States]]. She has received many grants and awards, including the [[International Studio Program]] in [[New York City|New York]], [[1998]]. Most recently she represented the Czech Republic at the [[1999]] [[Venice Biennale]].
Bromova was discovered as a two-year-old by a well-known Socialist Realist sculptor, Lidicky, who used her as the model for the child in a monumental sculpture of the "Ideal Socialist Family", which was placed beside the national memorial building on a hill in central Prague, where the [[mummy|mummified body]] of the first Communist president, [[Klement Gottwald]], was housed. The statue for which she modelled still stands there, but the building is virtually abandoned.
The core of Bromova's work is photographic; she often uses computer manipulation or adds objects. Her models are herself or those around her. The results go beyond mere portraiture or narcissism, however; rather, she is able to keep a distance from her subjects in the process of exploration of human body, its limitations, desires, and different forms.
== External links ==
* [http://www.veronikabromova.cz/english/foto.html Bromova's Web site]
[[Category:Czech artists|Bromova]]
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