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Bedny/Crates, Tender Prefabricates cycle/Něžné prefabrikáty /2006-25, concrete _ exhibition "The Eyes of the Skin"
Bastion U Božích muk
25. 6. 2025 – 31. 5. 2026
Curated by Martina Mrázová

The Eyes of the Skin

The exhibition presents a selection of works by teachers, students and recent graduates from three sculpture studios of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Its concept is inspired by a book of the same name by the architect Juhani Pallasmaa which addresses the perception of space in connection with our corporeality, with an emphasis on unfocused vision and tactility. The relationship to corporeality and sensuality is what the works by contemporary male and female artists across generations in a wide range of individual expressions have in common. Works that relate to corporeality not only through figures, but also through plasticity, proportional relationships, sensitivity to matter, or the organic nature of transformation of matter, have been chosen for the bastion’s impressive space with its open horizon above the Nusle Valley. Several stories touching on existential, social, and environmental themes thus unfold on the terraces of the bastion. The semantic layers of individual works addressing the issues of memory, fictional history, personal mythology, archetypes and symbols assume a special intensity and gravity in the historically charged environment of the bastion, restoring a sense of rootedness in the time and space continuity.

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