Mutually

Time and space have completely different parameters in personal archives than in real life. Perhaps it is so, because we enter the archives as strangers. Our world has a different arrangement than the archivists once knew. Nevertheless we are still trying to read and reconstruct what shaped the relations between individuals and communities, what united them and connected them to one another. A return to this experience is the reason why we are organizing this exhibition. Its aim is to present selected fragments of personal archives of the artists, active at the turn of the 1970s and 1980s in socialist Czechoslovakia. We are interested in activities of the informal groups and interest based communities that had been organized outside the state-run social structures.