Head to the park in Vršovice to see a tower that resembles a factory chimney, a totem pole, and a signpost all at once. It seems as though it has found its way here across the centuries and between the worlds of play and reality.

Jakub Musil, Lucie Polášková and Vojtěch Vaněk in the installation He Who Sows the Wind Reaps the Storm create a work of art based on the aesthetics of video game elements. Their tower of blocks looks as though it could appear in a video game and would hold its own across various scales and historical eras.

A simple game with blocks served as the starting point for the trio of artists. These blocks are often among the first building materials that children get their hands on. The principle of stacking them applies in both real and virtual environments: entire worlds can be built in Minecraft in the same way. The artists chose hollow cubic blocks, into whose walls they incorporated architectural motifs inspired by industrial aesthetics and Neo-Gothic style.

The combination of these elements opens the door to the search for a universal architectural language that can function across environments, scales, and historical periods. In new contexts, familiar shapes become part of a structure whose origin and chronological placement remain open.

The installation, which expands upon the series Polospánek—in which the artist combines the experience of video games with physical space—functions as an imaginary signpost in the Vršovice park. However, the destination one sets out for from it is not determined by the surrounding locations, but by chance in the form of the current wind direction, which turns the weather vane at its summit. The object’s appearance is also transformed by sunlight passing through stained-glass panels in red, green, and blue—the primary RGB colors. Thus, movement, chance, and the surrounding environment become part of the structure’s composition.

Curator: Silvie Šeborová