Roman Štětina’s work investigates the ways in which broadcast media including film, television and radio are created. His videos, installations and sculptures foreground the props, studios and technologies that are otherwise hidden behind the sounds and images received by an audience. This does not involve displaying the “unseen”, but rather the staging of typical production methods like editing or creating disruptions in absurd contexts. Another area to which Roman Štětina sometimes turns is genre cinematography. Re-edits which he creates through editorial interventions remove or, conversely, select one of the formal (pictorial or audio) components. The common feature of both of these lines is the discovery of new transformations in the viewer’s experience and shifts in the image, as well as “sidestepping” between divergent modes of presentation.
Roman Štětina graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague in 2015 after spending two years on the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in the classes Judith Hopf and Douglas Gordon. Since 2016 he has been working as an assistant professor in the Intermedia II. studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (Dušan Zahoranský and Pavla Sceranková).