In today's world, the art of not disappearing is based 100% on subjective experiences that reflect and reflect our personality. Humans are unique - those who create art, but also those who perceive art. The second part of this statement should be remembered. For there is often a disconnect between how art should be understood and how it is actually understood by its audience. It is common for viewers to search in vain for the "right answer" to what they see, instead of really perceiving, being enchanted and letting their own uniqueness disappear. Perceiving art is not a science, it is a feeling.
We are disappearing from the world. We lose our bodies and abandon our senses. We observe ourselves from somewhere high and far away through theories, models, networks, maps, screens, projectors, camera systems and virtual reality. We cease to be part of the experienced world as its subject, we become one of its objects, a thing that can be examined, dissected, defined and analysed, as the curator Pavel Dvořák explained the leitmotif of the exhibition.
The following text is not based on any theoretical information regarding the works or the artists. It focuses on one thing - the theme of disappearance.
We enter and suddenly begin to climb the staircase of our own feelings. Feelings that no one but ourselves can understand. For no one sees what others see, and no one has the right to tell anyone what to see and perceive. It should be remembered that we each have our own blue object before our eyes, which distorts our perception of the world. This blue screen through which we view the world lends us our uniqueness. Let's not be uniform; on the contrary, each blue is a shade different from the last, and that's a good thing.
Let's step out of the shadow of uniformity. We begin to look around us and we begin to understand. We begin to recognize clear outlines, and with each moment we feel less and less like American in Paris, with each moment we feel that art begins to embrace us as we begin to embrace it. We begin to understand that it is about truth. The truth that comes to us in cycles begins to tell us that this is not about superficialities, but about what we suddenly find within and without our thoughts - about honesty and about clarity of experience. The real feelings that we suddenly find everywhere are perceived as a huge surge of energy. And so we finally recognize the tremendous power of art. Art sends us SIGNALS that tell us we still have a chance.
We try not to disappear. Would you like to experience it with us?
SIGNAL II (23 July - 12 September 2021)
Text: Barbora Křížová, Telegraph Gallery
