Heliotropism
 
 
 
 
Heliotropism, intervention, DUUL, Usti nad Labem, 2018

For the intervention Heliotropism /On the Temporality of the Modern Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor have - only for a limited period of time - revealed a monumental ceramic relief from 1970s (authors of the work were Miroslav Prosek,Frantisek Salansky) hidden behind one of the walls of the exhibition space which used to be a university canteen. This archaeological gesture points out to both the latent collision between the utopian and the ideological nature of modernism deformed by totalitarian political tendencies and mechanisms, and the necessity to critically analyse the state of current society that cannot do without a thorough exploration and reinterpretation of its recent past, gradually covered by global layers of oblivion.
Michal Kolecek



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