(in the co-operation with Jakub Roček)
The Internet, cyberspace and bio-technology brought about a lot of questions the users have been trying to deal with. Syncretism, simulation, the absence of corporeality, the loss of identity etc. The reflection of society changes caused by new technologies developed in the art until the 1990s in rather utopian and techno-optimistic visions. Marie Lukáčová however deals in her video-collages with a vision of valueless development of activism and a pesimistic picture of the society submitting to a lifeless architecture dictat. In her work she comes out from the term of a junkspace defined by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhas. Two video-projections creating fluid scenes of a wide-screen dimension base on a “metaforically truthful ground” – oil paintings depicting a greyish dreamy landscape. The videomontage is a combination of recorded objects from the author’s close environment (a sofa, a bed cover) and structures from pseudo “natural spaces” in office buildings (vertical gardens, lakes, artificial rocks). Into such environment are young activists – belles “placed”, representing different movements and ideological groups and who are willing to read out the author’s dystopian stories.
Zuzana Janečková
