Showrooms
Na výstave Showrooms predstavuje Peter Barényi (1978) sám seba ako jednu z nosných tém vlastnej umeleckej tvorby.Osobité, tematicky i technicky minimalizované diela sú vizualizáciou jeho premýšľania o javoch každodenného života. Druhou kľúčovou témou aktuálneho výberu z videoinštalácií, inštalácií a objektov je autorov vzťah k mame a jej smrti. Nič neskrýva ani nezastiera, nepatetizuje spomienky na ňu, ani diváka nedrví svojím smútkom. Ako tretiu prezentuje kolekciu amatérskeho fotografa Dušana Veselovského, ktorý na základe Barényiho oslovenia vytvoril komentované fotokoláže z autorovho života. Zmes faktov a fikcie nám znepokojivo pripomína, že bez ohľadu na vlastný, viac či menej intenzívne budovaný obraz o sebe samom, nás vo svete vyznačujú najmä obrazy a myšlienky tých druhých.
- The exhibition "Showrooms"00:00:16.810
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- is held at the Enter Gallery,00:00:20.310
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- an interesting space looking like an old flat.00:00:23.856
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- The exhibition is divided into three parts.00:00:29.063
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- The largest part is about my mother and her death.00:00:33.098
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- The second part is about myself00:00:38.756
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- and my everyday life.00:00:42.648
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- The last part consisting of one work00:00:45.857
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- is about me as seen by another person.00:00:49.912
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- The work "Hug" is a 3-channel video installation00:00:56.356
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- showing a performance I did with my mother00:01:01.856
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- when she was still alive.00:01:05.963
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- This material became very important to me00:01:09.643
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- after my mother died.00:01:13.797
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- The video installation is complemented by chimes00:01:16.959
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- that serve as background audio.00:01:21.690
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- The chimes are made of my mother's things.00:01:25.364
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- There is also a 2-channel video00:01:34.810
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- projected in the attic.00:01:38.206
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- It shows my mother a few days before she died,00:01:41.474
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- and the final scene00:01:45.874
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- from Breaking the Waves by Lars von Trier.00:01:48.874
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- This scene complements the shot of my mother.00:01:52.861
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- The next exhibit is an object called "Legacy".00:01:57.522
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- It's a table with my mum's personal things00:02:02.566
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- I took after she died.00:02:07.744
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- All the things are wrapped in plastic.00:02:10.861
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- The plastic suggests something00:02:15.067
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- that should be hidden but is still visible,00:02:18.567
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- and it is also an allusion00:02:24.223
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- to my mother's deep religious faith00:02:27.723
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- in which I was brought up.00:02:31.223
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- That's not important, anyway.00:02:34.223
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- The next exhibit is made of three videos00:02:38.399
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- called "Sightseeing".00:02:41.899
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- The videos were shot during my travels abroad.00:02:45.252
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- In the cities I visited I made videos00:02:49.780
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- showing myself at the most famous monuments.00:02:53.280
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- By this work I tried to express the idea00:02:57.400
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- that holiday is always less fun00:03:02.001
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- when you spend it alone.00:03:05.501
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- That's why the videos are a little boring.00:03:09.130
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- The last room contains collages00:03:16.235
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- created by Dušan Veselovský.00:03:20.344
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- They offer a view of myself from the outside.00:03:25.160
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- This work is accompanied by a soundtrack00:03:29.914
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- with Dušan's explanations.00:03:33.414
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- This work was planned to be exhibited00:03:36.349
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- during the queer culture festival Mezipatra00:03:41.771
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- in Prague but the curator rejected it00:03:46.342
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- for poor technical quality.00:03:50.528
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- But this was exactly the goal,00:03:55.565
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- it should look like a work00:03:59.065
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- of an amateur photographer.00:04:01.945
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- Unfortunately, the exact same thing00:04:06.403
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- happened at this exhibition in Bratislava.00:04:09.903
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- The Evangelical Church that own the gallery00:04:14.075
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- banned this work so I had to remove it00:04:18.490
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- after 3 days of display.00:04:22.984