ARTIST PROFILE

David Přílučík

  • Czech Republic (b. 1991 in Zlín)
  • Currently in Prague, Czech Republic.

F2

  • 2019

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    F0 - F6 | 2017 - 2019

When petting a dog, we touch the materialized needs and dispositions of two animal species over the last 14,000 to 18,000 years. The wolf was apparently the first domesticated animal. Both man and wolf shared the same territory and hunted the same prey. Eventually, these species formed an alliance and laid the foundations for guided domestication through mutual adaptation strategy. The project explores and transforms the fabric of relationships we have gone through during this coevolutionary journey. Like breeders, I choose purposefully adequate aspects that he develops through historical and social phenomena. I then connect them into new relational qualities and thus intensifies the motives we have come to understand as unchangeable.In 1956, Colonel Karel Hartl made a request to create a new canine service breed for the needs of the Czechoslovak Border Guard by crossbreeding a dog with a wolf. The beginning of breeding dates back to May 26, 1958, when five puppies were born in the kennel of the border guard Libějovice inSouth Bohemia, of Brita, the she-wolf, and Cézar, the German Shepherd from Březový háj. Thus, the first phase F1 was created, leading to an animal that should have gained the status of a national breed. Czechoslovak wolfdog– embodied border of a non-existent state, unknown creature, which is no longer a wolf and is not yet a dog. For me, this event is the starting point through which i develop ideas on identity, territory, and dualistic thinking. Imagine a free dog. Would it still be a dog? This does not mean that the dog is not capable of freedom. On the contrary, it requires a re-evaluation of what the dog and freedom can become. Think and act in new links that transform concepts and their users. The current exhibition is looking for possible directions across these vague starting points. Using shots from the breed standard and interactions between dog and owners, snippets of interviews with Karel Hartl, lawsuit protecting wolves against the state, smells, chains, mesh, hybrid overall – bite suite, and other interventions, I frame the gallery by the ambivalent connotations on the borderline of care, perversion, and distance. Similarly, I delve into the issue of attributing human values to non-human actors.If these efforts don’t create new alliances following still uncharted trajectories of an interspecies biotope, they will lead in spite of good intentions to a reproduction of the current anthropocentric view where a man dominates and to violent aesthetic kitsch