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One of the key elements frequently appearing in the work of Jaroslav Varga /1982, Trebišov/ is a fascination with urban exploration, places known and somehow connected with the artist`s as well as community`s memory and history. Varga uses different methods of guiding the viewer in the space – he creates a new choreography of the viewer`s movement in the environment /orientation map of the Bratislava`s estate Petržalka in the work Vertical Labyrinth, 2008 based on the paintings on facades of blocks of flats/, constructs quasi travel guides for urban explorers /Urbex/ providing them with new topographies and encouraging them to perceive known places in new connotations. In his urban exploration he moves from sociological to psycho-geographical approach. Although Varga`s work is primarily analytical, it possesses a certain therapeutic layer – focus on a personal experience. The artist deals with a hidden aesthetics of experience and by use of various instructions and methods of archeology of everydayness he urges us to its creative development.
