Tereza Holá & Hynek Skoták
maakleerplek
Periode: 08.10—09.12.2022
Tereza Holá and Hynek Skoták share a common studio in Brno. Over recent years, the duo has created large site-specific installations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy and especially at contemporary art shows in France. Tereza Holá usually departs from natural materials (reed, grass, leather) in her practice. Hynek Skoták uses light, sound, sunlight and moonlight and wind in his conceptual installations. Both of the artists often use waste materials (used PET bottles, plastic crumb, paper, plastic bags).
Tereza Holá & Hynek Skoták
Tereza Holá and Hynek Skoták perceive their residency at maakleerplek as a transferred working space, a laboratory in a new environment, that allows them to focus and slowly break away from their current practices. Both authors find themselves at a turning point where they no longer want to create “environmental” material installations, instead they aim to “dematerialize” their work. This transition is analogous to their perception of our civilization and the ecological crisis. The artists strongly perceive that the way to save the planet is not recycling, but modesty: consumption reduction, production reduction, homo sapiens restraint, and a return to human instincts overshadowed by materialism.
During their stay in maakleerplek, the artists will divide their research stay into three stages: the first is getting to know the environment, resources and history of the place. The second is mapping this same environment through daily artistic activities (drawing, sound recording, experiments with words and poetry, fragments of speech). They will keep track of these actions in a shared documentation format (diary, book, artifact, poetry band). The third and last phase is the treatment of the residency space (in the old silos of AB Inbev) as a “post-industrial cathedral”.
“We do not want to place demands on the viewer’s interpretation of the work, we do not want him to diligently search for meanings and levels and to divert attention from the sensory experience of space to rational considerations. We do not want further ecological appeals and social comments, we do not want to overwhelm the newcomer with additional information pressure. We want to allow the visitor to turn off. On the contrary, so that the results of our work trigger as few associations as possible. To just perceive his stay in space. Connection with space. To EXIST in the midst of civilizational chaos, at least for a while. It is just a matter of being in a place that will soon disappear”
