Kristína Chrasteková & Tommy Høvik

POISE

Curated by Pavel Vančát

How do we achieve poise in today’s fluid, unstable world, which is constantly presenting us with new challenges and offering endless temptations and distractions? This is the question posed in the joint exhibition of videos by Kristína Chrasteková (SK) and the installations and collages of Tommy Høvik (NOR). In her remixed video sequences Chrasteková searches for moments of instability in the risky movements of athletes transformed into endlessly falling angels, while Høvik targets the same point from the opposite direction. From simple motifs he creates scenery and an environment that destabilises not only himself but the surrounding reality. Both artists finally meet at a fraught point of intersection: poise is not a state but a continuous and never-ending process.