
1939–2021: Konec černobílé doby
26. 05. 2023 - 30. 06. 2030
Národní galerie Praha, Veletržní palác / Praha 7
The exhibition is a visual metaphor of the intersection of inner and outer space – worlds that are within us and around us, with us and without us. Fragments of worlds, touches tangible or only dreamt, tangled and untangled, loose and tightened, like hair in the wind, like threads in a sewing machine, like high-voltage cables. Where individual states do not follow a linear order, but exist simultaneously.
The tangled structure resembles a kind of quantum foam, a kind of leaven – an irregular and changing space on the edge of legibility. Up close, it speaks of microscopic interactions, tiny changes and minute forces that lead to the bending of a single line, a path. From a distance, it transforms into a macrostructure whose shape is the sum of many small probabilities.
Each hair, each bend, and each knot is a trace of a situation that could have gone differently, but at one point settled into a particular form. And so it captures the moment when an infinite number of possibilities become a single reality – and yet it remains open, unanchored. Each thread, each filament, each line of force - like the trajectories of paths through a trajectory field, a place where the individual lines of one's own and the collective world overlap, translate, and interact.
Each knot is a condensed time, each ramification of a decision, each condensation of a possibility that once existed and was abandoned. And found again. Or just recalled. The thickness of experience, the layers of touch. Each thread is a path that twisted in a different direction than we expected. A place where time stopped and restarted, then went back for a moment as if to touch the same – unknown – point one more time.
In this perspective, Disheveled Hair becomes a game plan: an ever-changing map suspended in a single moment, a map that records the tension between who we were, who we are, and who we are becoming. The installation presents the filament not as a material but as an imprint of the movement of the unconscious – an image that takes shape without our control and yet perfectly represents us. And each recorded strand is a different language of the same movement.
Movements are deposited over time in a set of fractals – like mycelium growing through mycelium. Branching strengthens the whole; joining creates new pathways; structure is not governed by geometry but by adaptation. Images become an organism, not an object. Thus they become their own tangle, governed by invisible relationships: each strand pulls and is pulled, each bend a response to the forces at work at that moment.
They function as a map of glimpses from unnamed worlds, as a language of states, as blind maps of rivers, as moments that were not quite decided and yet left a trace. A mapping of space. Like the topography of a landscape. Like the weather. Like a body far beyond the skin. The rhythm of breath. The surf. A pulse.
Disheveled Hair is thus an image where body, nature and mind unite in one principle: Life grows in hyphae – and hyphae are never straight.
