21. - 27.3. 2025 / Open daily 13 - 19 h (opening: Thursday 20.3. 2025)
Tomáš Dunaj, Veronika Hrdinová, Michal Koška, Žofie Kučerová, Šimon Lukáč, Denis Matsuev, Živan Novotný, Barbora Pavelcová, Natálie Petržílková, Nicole Pichlerová, Prokop Sodomka, Julie Tampierová, Jan Tušl
curated by: Milan Mazúr & Viktor Takáč
graphic design: Žofia Fodorová a Šimon Vlasák
Students of the Multimedia studio of the Faculty of Design and Art at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.
The exhibition at AMU Gallery focuses on the strategic “fracturing” of the projected images and their smooth transition into space. The curatorial concept moves beyond the traditional frame and transforms video into the exhibition architecture, formulating new “planes of refraction” and perspectives.
The series includes works made by students based on their own original concepts, and presents night as its main theme. It was the phenomenon of night and its socio-cultural implications that inspired these videos which show not only a taste for formal experimentation with the medium of the image but also reflect the theme of night in all its ambivalent meanings.
“Long held under suspicion as the domain of outcasts and phantoms, the night has come under pressure to extend the horizon of work and production.
What faith, the state, and capital fear are the perils and promises of the dark’s formlessness: to withdraw into the pure solitude of sleep and dreams’ unreason; to blush with the pure elation of dance and a rave’s ephemeral friendships; even to have one’s edges undone by the murmurs of ghosts or a celestial sign.
Need a break from the tyranny of the sun? Then light a candle, a headlamp, a flare – anything but your phone – and grab your copy to follow us into the possibility of the night.” (Spike, no. 78)
The exhibition develops the day situation as an inversion of the night: the first part invites visitors to contemplate the ambient background of the day cycle while the last part is positioned as a simulated kino situation. The space between provides a threshold, a murky boundary, a hybrid situation. As the audience, we enter into dialog between the representative plane and an immersive, spatial experience – diving into it, dreaming, waking.
