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  gallery Industra, 2018 - 2019 | 2018

The exhibition by Lucia Gašparovičová and Ján Gašparovič (both SK) with their guest Ramon Feller (CH) presents their way of thinking about space and physical substance of events which have been given long-term focus in their respective creative endeavors. As artists, they are also interested in the issues of contemporary philosophy related to life in the so-called post-digital age, asking questions about the substance of value of things or truth of statements and events. The works, or their concepts, were created by the artists individually, yet their natural thematic closeness allows the exhibition to launch into a dialog about natural processes, movement, space, and the relations between them. The exhibition also builds on their inclination towards site-specific installation, with major attention given to time as represented by the duration of the exhibition itself. Time, or in this case rather temporariness, is one of the basic topics articulated by Ramon Feller’s featured work. Lucie Gašparovičová works directly with the essential properties of space, thoroughly inspecting and feeling them, until she arrives at the crucial questions that transcend it. Cold and heat are the primary impulse sent out to her by the premises of the former cold storage warehouse. In a continuation of her pre- vious creative approach which involves understanding of traditional craft and materials, conceptual thinking, and inclination towards scientific investigation of the world, she creates a site-specific installation. Her physicality is decidedly present, yet ultimately alienated from the spectator by the closed door of the greenhouse, or the media and materials used. This way, the visitor becomes a mere witness of digital data with information on the “inside and outside” status, or the (non-)present body struggling with the elements of nature. Even though the exhibition was not created with a primarily political intent, the activism is visible due to the very essence of media and technology-based art. Technologies are present not only as means of artistic expressions, but also as objects of direct criticism. An important role is also played by the social context wherein the artists create, and which naturally turns into a topic of their dialogs. Much like our cognition of the displayed photograph of a figure wading into a lake is subconsciously influenced by the season of the year in which we watch it, the meanings of the exhibited works are unarguably intertwined with the current vehement geopolitical changes taking place on our planet.