This exhibition was made for Nasuti, an art and sustainability festival.
The topic of this year's festival is degrowth, which is a theory, a lifestyle, a philosophy,
and an economic theory that courageously claims that for humanity to survive, its attitude has to be changed.
Instead of the constant growth, we should switch to slowing it down, keeping alive what's already here,
and consider an equal division and different use of Earth resources which are not unlimited.
The creative task wasn't to didactically process or create propaganda of the topic but rather look at it
from a different point of view and bring something poetic into it.
The factual task was to create an environment.
The piece from Gabriela Zigová worked in a different context originally.
The name of this piece is Cvernovka, and it was a reaction to the move of the Bratislava creative community
from the old building to the new one.
In this exhibition, it works like a reminder of instability, questionable certainty of what we create,
and what we consider as something that defines us and stays forever with us.
The movement of this piece tilts the object on one side and then it returns to the other.
But the return is never fully completed or without change.
The sound part of the exhibition was made by Amalia Roxana Filip AKA Chaosdroid.
She created a golden record, sounds meant for alien civilizations back in the 70s.
They captured the current state of civilization on Earth.
Amalia sampled these sounds into a musical composition that follows throughout the exhibition.
Images and texts by Boris Vitázek also tie into the concept.
They work with imagery from the golden record, pictures of our civilization sequenced by concepts this exhibition follows.
Boris Vitázek also worked on connecting the individual parts of the exhibition technologically.
He made sure the entire exhibition has its rhythm and everything ties together.
Jan Nálepa is a multimedia artist who works with technological connection with plant life.
He uses objects that symbolize the remnants of civilization.
They are randomly scattered and placed in the rubble that gets covered by growing plants.
The plant life processes are impacted by machines that make sounds, lights and create movement in the installation.
I got lightened up because the life in installation started to appear, a mushroom has grown over there.
So we could say that the installation is a success.