The exhibition project Come Over When You're Sober is the second part of the series Becoming a Girl, which takes as its theme the character of a (young) girl as we can meet her in works by Tiqqun (1999), Deleuze and Guattari (1980), or Witold Gombrowitze (1937). The aim of the cycle is to present the character of a young girl as a conscious and unintended guide in confrontation with the difficulties of today's world, against the background of the works of the young generation of Czech artists.
The Vak Gallery was, or perhaps still is, in a state of hibernation inside of a sports bag of its founder and first curator Aneta Willertová. As with other non-traditionally conceived galleries, its foundation was based on the effort to leave the exclusive environment of the standard gallery format and get closer to the uneducated viewer. In this case, it was not only a symbolic step - in addition to providing the space for the presentation of contemporary art, the bag also continued to fulfill its original function, and its owner carried it with her, for example, to Thai-box training or other exercises. Exhibitions in the Bag were usually located in a small compartment with a transparent foil, originally probably intended as a space for a card with the owner's contact details in case of loss.
The format of the openings also respected the mobile character of the Bag. Each exhibition was presented in a special place, the selection of which was upon the exhibiting artists themselves. Each individual opening was an experience of ecstasy, when the invited guests (invitations to the Bag openings were sent via the e-mail and thus resigned from the possibilities of social networks) had to travel to the announced place, where a (performative) artistic experience awaited them.
In her project Plan – DELTA, Daniela Ponomarevová works with a fictional post-apocalyptic event responding to the state of civilization. Objects, you may see in exhibition, represent fragments, segments or remnants of the ejected module, which detached from the space colonization ship DELTA due to the explosion. The project tells a story about the supposed demise of the Earth, which in recent years has become only a test object, a temporary place for humanity, which inevitably awaits destruction by a huge asteroid. This catastrophic cliché is used here deliberately, the fall of an asteroid represents inevitability and power beyond human capabilities.
