Whispering from the Other Apartment
Barbora Dayef, Eva Rotreklová and Markéta Slaná
Curated by Světlana Malinová & Max Dvořák - City Surfer Office 17.06 - 13.08.2023
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Strange place - so peaceful and strange. You breathe in the cold air that greets you with the creak of the door at the entrance. The human psyche needs to maintain a neutral ph, falling into reverie and rising again to complete concentration, as regular as breathing. That's why we seek relief in the diffuse rays of light that refract and create a subtle diffuse illumination. What are you doing here? Why do you spend months chasing this place?
These are strange ecosystems. Floating islands. Each one has its own microcosm, a prison in which it's sometimes hard to break free from atmospheric conditions and complexities. You float inside, leaving the chaos partly behind. On the other side of the building, the layered rows of windows continue, and with them the paradisiacal illusion returns. This time accentuated by human interventions, expressing a desperate relationship with Eden - a double fall, where the loss of innocence and the expulsion from paradise initiated a compulsive transformation that began with the soil and progressed lower and lower, down to the molecular level, in an attempt to transform the planet into a home: one that might one day bear the fruits of goodness. In this way, the earth was excavated, and complex composites were broken down into their individual elements, until the atom itself appeared, not as a bulletproof particle, but as a territory to be divided - to be moved. In the space between the two halves of the universes, glass met with a perfect refraction of rays.