The starting point for our exhibition What you saw leaking through the floor was our pain after the terrorist attack at Zamocka Street in Bratislava.
At the ACUD Gallery in Berlin, we wanted the Slovak queer artists to work together and find a good path.
The exhibition reacts to the need to find a safe space for existing, a shelter from the current standard mechanisms of society that transform very slowly.
The exhibition presents an interspace with unspecified time, but most likely not that long ago.
We are in the moment of two worlds that are about to collapse.
Because of their dysfunctionality, the artists think about worlds that could replace them.
This space after the collapse is a space for building a new world.
The exhbition works with the idea of artifacts that transfer themselves like a residue.
The artifacts of experiences of the artists, whether bodily, emotional or physical, transform scenes into a new speculative universe.
They reveal themselves in their new form.
The installation takes inspiration from the gaming aspect and thanks to the communication between the artworks, it creates a separate world where we can communicate with the worlds of the artists.
Dominik Styk's installation brings physical and illusionary aspects.
He connects the natural with the world of fantasy through recyled materials from the previous world and interdisciplinary study of illusion.
Misunderstanding and ignorance in contradiction with the rational are generational powers that stand behind his work.
Despite the fact that these objects are not from our knowledge nor our world, we can dive into their reality and feel their closeness.
The artworks by Veronika Žilinská confront the static status quo and work with the theme of temporarity and fluidness of substance.
Precisely generated digital worlds get created and collapse during the same moment.
Fragment zero presents her long-term interest for an old house, which used to be a romantic place where time didn't play a role.
The time in this capsule is preserved in this detailed drawing.
The artwork Aura which is equally compressed and spread out puts us into the shoes of a thief, a visitor, or a guard.
We walk through the nostalgia of space which used to contain irreplecable stolen artifacts.
Found, combined, and ready made materials, artifacts with a new meaning in the artworks by Luki Essender connect the movement of the body with the memory.
She deconstructs the public space with her queer experience and allows the creation of new narratives.
The installation allows us to take control over the space and influence the way we move through it.
A similar composition with a light installation Self Voyeurism by Lenka Adamcová reflects feelings of fear, emotional experience of resistence, and the feelings of movement.
Her installation activates itself every 15 minutes and it influences the gallery space with sounds and lights, and brings us into a dispersed reality.
We can watch her installation through the gallery courtyard, as a reminder of the outside world.