There is something everywhere

The exhibition "There is Something Everywhere" is surprising at first glance in that we do not find any real characters here. One could even say that Kateřina Závodová decided to tell a completely new story in the form of an installation - a story about someone's absence. An important and visible change in her work is the fact that the material that is found and not manipulated in any way is meaningfully connected here.

The first part of the installation in the 35M2 gallery consists of paper objects from an exhibition at the agricultural museum. A somewhat claustrophobic spatial geometric framework is created from them. The viewer is confronted here with only a part of the absent whole and with objects that have already lost their original function. However, this fact does not prevent us from perceiving the brownish traces on the brownish surface as unintentional and spontaneous photographic shadows of unknown events. The second part consists of two moving images with a landscape motif, which here freely innovates the aforementioned procedure - balancing pathos and lapidary. In one, we observe the pneumatic movement of the sports hall, reminiscent of breathing, and in the other, rain falling on the fountain outside its active season. Both are connected by a kind of esoteric symbolism of natural movement and basic principles that are supposed to have a revitalizing effect.

Text: Michal Pěchouček

There's Something Everywhere - 35 m2, Prague

December 2, 2011 – January 1, 2012
Curator: Michal Pěchouček