The exhibition Stručný archív daru (the short archive of gift) is the first showcase of a long term project that I began back in 2017.
It's tied to a particular place, to a specific garden, which was the first impulse for the start of various researches.
This exhibition offers multiple levels of my way of thinking.
It's presented in the form of an open archive.
Drawers that would typically be a part of some archive storage are offered in a way as if it was a street fruit and veg market or a shop window.
They are open; we can look at the contents. These separate drawers present various groups of interventions.
I describe these groups more in the text, but there are three main ways of thinking present.
The first one is thinking about nature in that specific place and context.
They are nature-scientific and analytical data collections and tables.
The second group is about humans, mostly myself, but we can generalize it on human effort in nature.
Human plans, ideas, use, or cooperation with that specific land.
And the third group is more general speculations that cross this area's borders and consider them more timeless and placeless.
The exhibition has two main parts. One is this open archive, and the second one is a more general allegory of birth or change.
It consists of two parts. The first one has a human plan of architecture that I made on that piece of land.
It's fading away, or it's changing into something else. It represents a personal nightmare or a global foretell.
On the other part, it's compensated with the structure of growing or change.
Crystalline structures that merge lift from burnt material.
It's a long term project that I'm going to continue working on, and I imagine its next installation will be modified and extended.
It might go through a radical change. What I offer here is a way of a time stop.
This large space of Jozef Kollár Gallery went through many fabulous exhibitions lately, and it's getting a new character.
That's why it was a challenge and an honor for me to make the exhibition here.
I wanted to make the architecture so that it would rule the space and worked with the historical character of the building and the unique ceiling.
The things you see in the smaller area are site-specific and made to fit this gallery's dimensions.
This architecture was also made for this space.