Adam Hejduk’s portfolio is dominated by a handcrafted scrupulous work with large-format glass panels anchored together with strings. They represent not only independent objects but at the same time also musical instruments. However, in his diploma thesis he made use of glass desks as a projection screen for a three-canal video. The project is designed for CIT Cinema.
In the context of the climate crisis, my generation was already born in the skin of a slow-cooked frog, but it was not until the covid pandemic and the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war that our self-image was fully shattered. The ensuing shock and disillusionment have caused a definitive erosion of our supposedly fundamental values of rationality and humanism, and call for the need to redefine them. In the works of the emerging generation of artists, this reassessment is manifested in particular by a turn towards their countervalues: towards romanticism, spirituality, or the quest for the equal status of all members of the planetary community.
As a creative tandem, Věra Lukášová and Markéta Lisá meet for the first time in a joint exhibition project. The result of this collaboration links the specifics of their independent artistic work, which in the case of Věra Lukášová refers to the broadly conceived medium of film, in the case of Markéta Lisá to literature, text and music. What they have in common is a special combination of sensitivity, humility and subtlety.
Anetta Mona Chișa
Anetta Mona Chișa is one of the outstanding personalities of contemporary Czech visual art. Her work on the verge of object creation, architecture and design contains a multilayered system of thought references and cultural quotations. Matter, image, body, movement and time figure here as something changeable and relational that we all create right here and now. And the exhibition can be a medium that can lead us towards to the resembling thoughts, that used to pass us by...
Dana Balážová, Eva Brodská, Lucie Kralíková and Petr Švolba
The connecting element of the exhibition is the elemental life-giving element and magical symbol preserved for many ages - fire. A functional furnace and rising smoke will become the focal point of the exhibition. The shared experience of many a loud (or silent) prayer can be a connection to ancestors present, future and past in one precious time. In the gallery installation, tapestries, a moving image, and clumps of plants will come together, waiting to be burned in communal gatherings. The artists dedicate these to three themes: winning friendships, summoning rain, and divinatory and prophetic dreams.
