fotocredit : Sráč Sam

exhibition view WE HARVEST STONES, SOMETIMES MUD

SAM83 gallery / 2025 / CZ.
curator: Sráč Sam

neon, wool drapery

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WE WILL TALK ABOUT SILENCE, MORE AND MORE

“My room was enveloped in the remnants of the world’s pain.” served as the initial working title of the installation.
I urgently needed to move away from descriptiveness and opted for a poetic, even romanticized form of text in the title, which straddles the line between despair and faith. The idealized oxymoron in the final name of the installation is a polemic on weltschmerz, which has both a general and personal dimension in the work.

fotocredit: Johana Merta

Hundreds of scraps from seamstresses.
Wool jersey usually ends up in the trash.

I can never save it all, I don’t have the capacity. Neither physically nor otherwise. I am unable to communicate this. The lady who gave me the scraps eventually became concerned.
I don’t know exactly what, I’m just guessing. Probably that something will still come out of those tiny pieces. A lot has come out of my hands since 2020.
Black is the color of sadness, they said. Maybe only in our continent. Maybe if I moved away, I would stop mourning. The scraps of Worldpain covered my room.

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The handwritten neon text object „Shalom“ was created in 2018 for my first studio in Brno. The studio was the size of a very small room. Symbolically, Šalom=pokoj/room in Czech. SHALOM=PEACE welcomed everyone who entered. I had the studio for six months before we decided to move to the countryside. Then it was no longer on display.
I obtained the leftover wool jersey material as waste from seamstresses in 2020.
Now, in 2025, after many years, I dared to bring out my „wish for peace.“ But I don’t dare to use it without visibly materializing the tragedy we are witnessing.
I obtained the leftover wool jersey material as waste from seamstresses in 2020.
By combining light and wool, I convey a message of grief and shame at human cruelty.

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