A collection is an organism that does not live from individuals, but from the idea of its own boundaries, which are expected to be permanently modified. The collector is a fanatic who is able to sacrifice a lot to fulfill his metanarrative. And not just in terms of financial means. It sounds like an oxymoron, but collecting is actually anti-materialistic. The value is not in the object itself, but in its significance for the whole collection, for the context in which it enters. Sooner or later, the collection of art objects begins to infect the collector with the spectre of the need for an idealistic perspective, the spectre of cultural responsibility. But the cultural impact will only be to the extent that society identifies with the values that led to its creation. The ethos of legacy is thus constantly confronted with a grid, confronted with fractures and folds that are filled with disharmony. But this is precisely the only way to authentically see the momentary image of the nervously shifting organism of an art collection. The only way to decipher the signal.
Curated by Martin Drábek
Architecture by David Vojtuš
