Veronika Bromova, born on 12 August 1966 in Prague, is a

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new-media artist who focuses on computer manipulating photographs by using the program

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. She lives and works in

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. She is working with genre themes, feminism, pedophilia and mystery, and she has exhibited in

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and the

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. She has received grants and awards, including a Czech "Grammy" for the best CD cover and the International Studio Program in New York, 1998. She represented the Czech Republic at the 1999

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in the Czechoslovakia building.

Life and career

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." The sculpture was placed beside the national memorial building on a hill in central Prague, where the mummified body of

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's first Communist president,

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, 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

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, 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.

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Bromova's Web site
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Life and career

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