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The long life of industrial products, their slow decomposition and their subsequent journey into the earth - with all this, the artist gives nature and geological time a far more optimistic perspective than we as humans can attribute to ourselves. We now know that the garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean has exceeded the size of Texas and is approaching the size of all of North America.
"Slibuji" is an art project conceived by Sráč Sam. The exhibition is organized by the tranzit.cz initiative in collaboration with the SVĚTOVA 1 gallery. The installation of pillows, concrete blocks, and plates with texts presents art as a story that focuses on ordinary things and everyday relationships.
By dissolving boundaries, cultural constructs, nationalities, taxonomies, and skin, we transform old paradigms of human/non-human, toxicity/purity, and living/dead into permanent cooperation with the foreign. After all, all boundaries are only transitional spaces where matter morphs and theorizes a new existence.
Rotor is a cooperative design practice that investigates the organisation of the material environment. They develop critical positions trough research and design. Besides projects in architecture and interior design, they also produce exhibitions, books, economic models and policy proposals. Rotor was founded in 2005. Today, a core of about a dozen long-term collaborators sets the agenda of the group.
The protagonists of Sikora’s similes are trivial animals, plants and mundane elements of material world in their simple state of being. He takes interest in marginal and repressed social phenomena and thinks about them visually.
The lecture will guide you through a heterogeneous series of projects that are developed by associative thinking. Historical precedents mix up with everyday references, generating designs that aspire a densely layered and surprising character.