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  The Land of Suburbia | 2015

I focused on the phenomenon of suburbanization as the focus of my final year at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and continue to develop it organically. These are mostly sculptures and objects, as well as assemblies and drawings through which I reflect the image and transformation of disappearing natural areas. These landscape segments simply ceased to exist thanks to the construction boom and the individual desire to own a house as a stand-alone residence. I witnessed the impact of construction in the city center as well as along its edges in their forms and shapes, as well as distinctive characteristics, creating personal stories for them. A house without context, yet influencing it and changing its character is nearly impossible to define or capture. The continuing expanse of cities leads to chaos and loss of natural boundaries. We find ourselves in a mass that is neither a city nor a village and certainly no long era landscape. These unique and essentially fragile places in the landscape are transformed inexorably into a monotonous visual grid of carpet-style construction. PUBLIC SPACE INSTALLATION / BRNO ART OPEN Here I produced an installation of approximately five hundred minute concrete houses at Moravské Square in Brno that evoked a scaled-down version of the suburban sprawl that is currently viewed with so much criticism. I included a total of eight models of one-story houses with their own typology that multiplies and spreads out in an ornamental grid of known as carpet-style construction. From an overview as well as a side view, it illustrates a uniform field of these overstated models of satellite construction in an organic curve. The entire installation is supposed to evoke this expansive settlement issue, shifted on purpose to an aesthetic level. At first glance it disguises an obvious reference to the irreversibility of the original landscape by built-on land and the importance of creating the memory of place. Paradoxically, suburbia thus enters the downtown on which it depends, failing because it lacks the whole some city feel.