Archipelago of Attention

An exhibition of twelve artists of the youngest generation, working in the media of painting, sculpture and intermedial installation.

Exhibiting artists: Kateřina Frgalová, Martin Gebert, Lilla Gombos, Oskar Hořánek, Lucie Hošková, Martin Jech, Tereza Mátlová, Zhatera Runa, Oksana Sadovenko, Kamil Šlapák, Andrea Naďa Tomčíková, Natálie Želeva.

What does solitude mean today? Is it the last layer in which one can still be with oneself? It is possible to connect various approaches, each of which speaks its own language, of authors who do not even know each other and who come from many places, in one exhibition, without applying any method of current generational understanding, it is possible to find attitudes that are as close as possible to each other do they distance and define each other? Can gaps be discovered in the growing socialization, preserving a distinctive expression, dominated by ambiguous individual experiences that escape the shared, overwhelming everyday life? Art remained one of the few areas that resisted all kinds of external and internal pressures, a place of last salvation before falling into nothingness, an area that lifted the view from the mundane, a surviving island in which a condition that can be characterized as preoccupation is still preserved. One of its sources is solitude, a crack, surrounded by insignificance, fullness in emptiness, irrelevance, not intersected by coordinates. The island and the rift are mutually intertwined assumptions, as if one could not exist without the other. The features of preoccupation include differentiation, the effort to be outside, not to become part of a generational, group, stylistic program, a link in the wheel of the world of art and its operation.