The body rightly attracts our attention as a two-way interface between the psychological and social aspects of our being. Its ambivalence, so attractive for the sphere of visual art, lies primarily in the fact that it functions as a screen that either separates people and thus promotes their individuality, or, on the contrary, unites them, thereby co-constituting the social or intimate sphere of our existence here and now.
In collaboration with the Milota Havránková Foundation, the exhibition explores the transgenerational and intermedial intersections of these ideological and creative actors: the vague and normative terrain of animate and inanimate nature, society and corporeality.
Three authors from different generations, working in the Czech-Slovak environment, share a background outside the conformist normative world. Their perspective brings to the exhibition the experience of being on the margins of mainstream society – a space that is crucial for the hope of a better world.
Artists: Jan Durina, Josef Mach, Ivan Pinkava
We would like to thank the Milota Havránková Foundation for co-organizing the exhibition.
The exhibition is publicly funded by the Fund for the Support of Art in Slovakia (Fond na podporu umenia).
