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StonyTellers

The group exhibition presents works in different media by emerging artists from Czech Republic, Poland and Germany that refer to folk and indigenous traditions, beliefs and crafts, magical thinking and animism, using the language of poetry, speculative theories and storytelling. Using these various approaches and narratives the artists explore topics related to letting go, unlearning, loss or mourning in the context of the individual and collective traumas.
The tools brought about by technological progress and the network society create an alternative way of establishing communication and building new relationships of interpersonal and interspecies cooperation. However, we suggest listening to the sounds of practices associated with community: rituality, coexistence with the world of plants, animals, and fungi, dissolving the hypersensitivity of the individual "I" in favor of the collective "we," sensitivity to the stories and perspectives of plants and animals, oil, or clouds.
Currently, we encounter these changes and catastrophes being discussed in regional public debates by people from the scientific community, government agencies, and politics, who use the authority of expert images to describe the ongoing changes and impending catastrophes. We do not see images that deviate from the established norms of scientific representation in the public sphere, and the voices of those directly affected by these changes are heard little or not at all in public debate. However, the presence of the planet as an active force producing its own images and ways of sharing them gives power to these alternative voices, languages, and images.
This year, the Luhovaný Vincent exhibition aimed to look at spas from the perspective of artistic realizations in public space. For every city, these often represent untouchable remnants of past eras, regimes, and ideas, but they also illustrate contemporary tastes and social demand. The curators reflected on the festival theme Bez nánosu (Without Sediment) through site-specific artworks and installations, as well as performances and unexpected situations. Three guided walks through the exhibition as part of the festival also provided ample opportunity for theoretical evaluation and fruitful debate with visitors.