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From: Martin VanCat Category: Exhibitions Date: 27 August 2008 Time: 06:10 AM Review: Divus Unit 30 present Marketa Othova . Hiya nan photography exhibition private view on Thu 4 Sep 2008 at 6pm Open until 30 Sep 2008 Divus Unit 30, 3rd Floor, North Entrance 37 Cremer Street, Shoreditch London E2 8HD london@divus.cz, tdv@divus.cz mobile: +44 (0) 79 5114 3916, landline: +44 (0) 2077398993 http://www.divus.cz/london/index.html ...Othova is interested not so much in documenting the world around her as in the potential of photography to tell a story, to constitute a language of fiction. Although she is a photographer, she might find it difficult to show you a portfolio of images she has taken, she can much more easily show you photographs of her exhibitions, show you what she has done with groups of photographs. A single shot, even if beautiful by itself, is for Othova the basic material from which she builds her work... from text by Tomáš Pospiszyl