New nature, Festival Prototyp, Brno 2024
Everything in the world keeps repeating itself over and over, wars, pandemics, architectural styles, life and death. Some of us create our own cycles, from which we just don’t like to get out, we find a rhythm of life, a stereotype that we stick to and constantly spin in it. We get up in the morning, go to work, open a beer after work, put the kids to sleep, watch a series and go to bed. After twenty years, for example, we can afford a mortgage, we pay it off and then we die and everything starts all over again somewhere else, all over again, just a little differently, anew. It’s hard for us to get out of these cycles, it’s so natural, normal. The world is changing, people are still circulating, instead of water lilies LED strips, plastic tubes have replaced vines, it is our world, man has created it. It is a new nature, what man has created, it is natural to him, natural. The lights flash rapidly, the plastics peek out from the asphalt like earthworms. How to deviate from circulations? Can we get out of them? We can each of them out, just materialize our courage and stand out from the crowd. Those who step out will move the world a little further, towards a trip to Mars, a nuclear disaster, a new nature.
Connection, Symposium, Fiesta de arte, Tennenlohe, Germany, 2024
The sculpture called Connection connects the present with history, new technologies with natural material and tries to introduce an interactive element into the sculpture without using any external source. It aims to connect not only technology, but also a person with the work itself. The megaphones placed in the stone are meant to serve as hearing aids, with which you can listen to the stone and when you put your ear to it, you can hear an echo. In imagination, we can also see through the stone and thus be a part of its entire history, layer by layer. The stone is drilled through in three places, a 3D printed plastic megaphones are always placed at one end.
€100, group exhibition SCOOTER VI. – young art event, Ján Koniark Gallery, collaboration with Andrea Uváčiková, Trnava, 2024
The installation, in which we decided to 3D print from a water-soluble (environmentally friendly material) our promised fee for the exhibition, €100, reflects the crisis of remuneration for artistic work, which is often performed at best for the cost of the material, at worst for free or for a small fee. In the long term, such a situation is unbearable for artists, both from a financial point of view and also from the point of view of personal motivation and the threat of burnout. In the broader discourse, we continue the debate on the status of the artist as one of the possible solutions to this crisis. The work is procedural, gradually dissolving due to exposure to conditions (rain, wind, etc.).
Decimation, group exhibition OUT OF MIND OUT OF SIGHT, KUMST, collaboration with Andrea Uváčiková, Brno, 2024
Decimation is a set of two light interactive objects that have a basis in the elemental natural shapes of stone and mountain. The work illustrates man’s relationship with nature and the transformation that is omnipresent. In my reasoning, I start from the belief that what man creates is natural to us and therefore natural, so transformation does not always have to be fundamentally bad. The entry of man is essential here, therefore his approach to the objects turns the noise of nature into digital noise and thus opens up space to reflect on the similarities of these two worlds. Decimation is thus a statement of the current or even future digital world in which we hide and escape from the real one. The term decimation is derived from one of the functions that was used in the creation of objects and at the same time resembles the term decimated, which can well describe this transformation or the state of a person. We can thus say that the objects adopt the means of expression of the digital environment and thus depict the transformation of the world around us.
