Curated by Mariana Serranová

Chemistry, just like economics, (these days almost indistinguishable) will lead the anthropology of the material culture of this era. Benjamin H. Bratton

In the long run Adam Vačkář creates an economic and ecological scenario based on the reality of the consumer system. From Margin of Hope (2013), based on a concrete ecological crisis in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, it gradually transforms into the imaginary socio-critical scenario of the future. His latest projects link pop cultural utopian series such as Star Trek (This Side of Paradise, 2016, Botany Bay, 2018) with an abstraction made up of concrete objects of a particular contemporary reality together with an imaginary vision of the future.

The project created for Stone Projects uses common materials such as metal, glass, wood, and natural materials, whose properties and surfaces are altered to make their origin and destination unclear at first glance. It leaves the viewer in doubt and forces him to penetrate the other layers for an interpretation. Through photographs and installation, it evokes an indefinite mechanical reproducible repeatability, which turns upside-down: laser-carved precision metals embellish its uniqueness, and the plants, through their surface treatment and colour, are seemingly mechanically reproducible.