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Planet ID: memories of Earth
Main Hall
21. 06. — 06. 10. 2024
Petra Mazáčová, curator of the exhibition
„We go into space prepared for everything, i.e. loneliness, struggle, suffering and death. We don’t say it out loud out of modesty, but sometimes I think how wonderful we are. But we don’t want to conquer the universe, we just want to expand the Earth to its limits.“ (Stanislaw Lem, Solaris) Through the upcoming exhibition project, conceived as an epic environmental dis(u)topic science fiction, the gallery in Roudnice joins the loud societal discussion about the sustainability of life on Earth. The drastic extinction of animal species, the disappearance of fauna and climate change are just some of the problems that have already been highlighted by the world’s leading researchers. Today and every day we are reassured that the time of losing control of our lives is still far away. However, environmental anxiety has already become topical. Fear of what is to come. Fear that we have no plan B. This reality (and more) is what the exhibition PLANET ID: Memories of
Earth reflects. It plays with the idea of interplanetary escapism – a mental game of escaping to other worlds. But what does such a space journey become for its passengers? A rescue, or a prison in which nothing remains but memories? Snippets that the human brain assembles into new abstract concepts? The aim of the exhibition is to conceive the hitherto known world as a collage, the main axis being the Earth-universe connection. With the help of selected human artworks, understood as fragments of ideas about the near and distant surroundings, we will try to construct a mental map balancing on the edge of reason and sentiment, science and memory.
Artists represented: Zbyněk Baladrán, Ondřej Basjuk, Josef Bolf, Šimon Brejcha, Václav Březina, Václav Cigler, Kristýna Dytrych Šormová, Peter Fabo, Dominik Gajarský, Anna Hulačová, Jaf 34, Vladimír Janoušek, Jiří John, Lukáš Karbus, Michal Kindernay, Krištof Kintera, František Kobliha, Jiří Kolář, Pavel Kopřiva, Kamil Linhart, Matěj Lipavský, Richard Loskot, Karel Malich, Adéla Matasová, Milan Maur, Jiří Mrázek, Pavel Mrkus, Jakub Nepraš, Aleš Novák, Natalie Perkof, Jan Pražan, Lukáš Rittstein, Pavla Sceranková, Lada Semecká, Rudolf Sikora, Sára Skoczková, Antonín Slavíček, Rudolf Svoboda, Tomáš Šenkyřík, Jan Šerých, Štěpánka Šimlová, Barbora Šlapetová, Josef Šmíd, Jakub Tajovský, Michaela Thelenová, Pavel Trnka, Martin Velíšek, Kristina Vesková, Dan Vlček, Eugen Wiškovský, Stanislav Zippe, Kamila Ženatá