Why do visual artists in times of overproduction (of things, information, and cultural values) collect and preserve various objects? What types of objects attract them? Where do they find their material? What meaning do they assign to it? What stories do they tell through their collections? How do they live with them? How do they work with them? How does their collecting translate into their work and into their thinking about our existence and impermanence? Does their fascination with various objects (snow globes, Lego bricks, old family clothes, lost keys, historical photographs, books, magazines, old prints, dead insects, old furniture, etc.) represent an escape from reality, or does the collection, sorting, and occasional display of these objects create space for new understanding and new interpretations that, to the contrary, accentuate and define reality?
Each of the personalities featured in the exhibition reveals their fascination, obsession, and inspiration with found remains of the material and natural world – "sediments" brought to life in new and often surprising contexts.
Exhibiting artists:
Marcel Benčík (1977), Erik Binder (1974 – 2023), Petra Feriancová(1977), Mária Fulková (1962), Jana Hojstričová (1972), Gabriel Hošovský (1966), Patrik Illo (1973) & Alexandra Stencel (1987), Zuzana Janečková (1979), Katarína Karafová (1990), Peter Kalmus (1953), Matej Krén (1958), Patrik Kovačovský (1970), Marek Kvetan (1976), Terézia Jandušíková & Dominika Korbášová, (1999), Otis Laubert (1946), Zorka Lednárová (1976), Jana Machatová (1972), Svätopluk Mikyta (1973), Roman Ondak (1966), Karol Pichler (1957), Peter Rónai (1953), Júlia Sabová (1958), Kristýna Španihelová (1982), Tibor Uhrín (1966), Karol Weisslechner (1957), Lucia Židek Gamanová & Matej Židek (1993)
The works displayed in the exhibition are from the collections of the Bratislava City Gallery, the Liptov Gallery of Peter Michal Bohúň in Liptovský Mikuláš, the Slovak Design Center, the Slovak National Theatre and private ownership.
