Veronika Bromova, born on 12 August 1966 in Prague, is a Czechoslovakian new-media artist focussing on computer manipulating picture by program Photoshop.
Career
She lives and works in Prague. She represented the Czechoslovakian Republic at the 1999 Venice Biennale in the Czechoslovakia building. 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.
Politics
She is working with genre themes, feminism, pedophilia and mystery, she has exhibited in Europe and the United States. 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 mummified body of the first Communist president, Klement Gottwald, was housed.
