The Oratio pro futuris melioribus (Prayers for a better future) exhibition is the project that I created in a curatioral concept by Michal Stolárik for the Liptov gallery.
What's interesting in this exhibition is that besides artworks I created in the past 14 years,
we can also see artworks by Ladislav Medňanský, Dominik Skutecký, and Miloš Bazovský.
It's important to say that the exhibition reacts to the topic of queer people, and also to current events,
such as the double murder of two people at a gay club at Zamocká street in Bratislava.
The exhibition consists of three parts, the first part reacts directly to the topic of queer body, sexuality, and physicality.
I combine certain artworks with sketches and drawings by Medňanský which possess a homoerotic character.
In this case, we also give space to a performer who directly reacts to Medňanský's artworks, where we can see half-naked men.
He's trying to combine and recreate the positions from the drawings.
The second part of the exhibition is about the reaction of the Catholic Church on sexual minorities, and how it percieves them.
This part shows one of my artworks called Mreže (Bars) from 2009 in a combination with Skutocký's artworks,
where we can see the interiors of churches, which is also what we can see in my artwork.
I'm finding similarities not just in the topics, but also in visual aspects that repeat themselves
either in my artworks or in the artworks of the other artists.
In the next room, we can see pedestals with deformed candles which match the shape of the pedestals.
This artwork works in combination with Bazovský's art, where we can see a church that stands out
from a village, just like the pedestals stands out in the room.
It's important to say that the interior communicates with the exterior, we can see the Protestant church from the window, which connects the exhibition,
even though the Bars artwork is about the Catholic church, the presence of the church is an important visual aspect of the exhibition.
The last part of the exhibition is the beginning and the end of the exhibition at the same time.
It's focused on the aforementioned double murder of Matúš and Juraj.
It involves artwork by Medňanský - a crouching young man who sadly looks into a fire,
with cut-off lilly flowers underneath, which symbolize a disruption of innocence.