“..and they told him, they looked: we still have just a few cultural centers, they said: “ Playground no, but if you want to build a cultural center, we will give you money. There was this good pub, which was possible to reconstruct, so he decided to build a cultural centre, because he had support. Of course it is right to build cultural centers, because the people are able to meet, enjoy themselves and so on.”
Miloš Jakeš, 1989

Exhibition of the photographers duo Lukáš Jasanský and Martin Polák under the name Director and Founder, looks as if it was almost going back in time, this time maybe to the 80´s of the past century. The glass cases of the Ferdinand Baumann Gallery in Štěpánská passage will become a board of honour, similar to the ones that the cadre workers used to make to support their propaganda. The photography of life and work of the recognized workers in the flashing shop windows served to create fiction, on politically-ideological foundation built on the myth of the equity of classes. Just with the difference that these are not the 80´s, this is reality, or maybe not. Jasanský with Polák are reviewing on the verge of absurdity.
Matouš Mědílek, 2011

Curator: Matouš Mědílek