Imagination is a person's ability to conjure up images or "pictures" in the mind, which may be tied to previous experience as memories ("reproductive imagination"), but may also transform this "material" in various ways to create new ideas ("productive" or "constructive imagination", fantasy). The emphasis is on the fact that imaginations – unlike perceptions – are purely thought and that they are not (yet) expressed in words.

The exhibition project Imago connects the work of three artists – Richard Nestler, Matouš Marek and Marie Ladrová – who have passed through the intermedia studio of Milan Knížák at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. After years of working independently in the field of contemporary art, they meet again in a collective exhibition whose central theme is the subconscious, dream and imagination - phenomena that have become key elements of their individual work. All three of them are also engaged in teaching.

Richard Nestler works with the medium of angular drawing, which serves as a tool for immediate visual improvisation. He creates pictorial worlds arising directly from the stream of consciousness, without prior construction – records of mental landscapes, a kind of visual diaries of the subconscious.

Matouš Marek, a clinical art therapist, focuses his painting on inner emotional states, which he translates into images that teeter on the edge of abstraction and psychic recording. His works emerge as a process of personal processing and as inspiration for the therapeutic potential of the image.

Marie Ladrová has long been working with dreams, which she transforms into large-scale watercolours and objects. She uses old, disappearing technologies and natural materials – mushrooms, plants.