Curated by: Eva Slunečková

A graduate of UMPRUM, Prague, where she studied photography, Miroslava Večeřová focuses on the simulation of features in objects and their environment. She frees them from their contexts and transfers them into (seemingly) altered realities. Her argumentation is technicallly mature and convincing, and the questions she asks have not yet been answered. Attention is navigated towards the details, subtle creases and discrepancies. She brings the photographic medium closer to the characteristics of three-dimensional objects, she experiments with the boundaries of reality and abstraction, flatness and tangibility, concept as well as physicality.

Romana Drdová, a student of New Media at the Academy of Visual Arts (AVU), is interested in the nuances of perception that correspond to the current place of installation. In reaction to concrete conditions she often lets the light characteristics and specific morphology of the space stand out. Glass, mirror surfaces and nearly monochromatic photographies work to create an image which is seemingly silent, but whose content can resonate strongly with the viewer. Interpretation is left to the observer and his or her own experience.

In the Too Soon exhibition, the two authors jointly draw on the theme of emotivity, fragility and transparency, they find new ways of using ductile materials and in the unfinished quality of their own works they touch upon a range of possibilities in terms of perceiving time and space. They venture into a sensitive interpretation of the spatial arrangement of the gallery, they draw on formal givens and appropriate them as means of expression in their own right. They emphasize the imperfections of the work as valuable elements, elevating them and honouring them with a special delicacy. The motifs in their work seem influenced by the basic laws of nature, which they use to their own advantage. Wind and water gain significance, and dominate the project as quiet leitmotifs.