The first exhibition of the series TEST OF THE SYSTEM, which presents the co-authored work of the youngest generation as a critical probe into contemporary social structures, which in times of crisis examines and reveals their limits.

While As Long as the Meadows Smell is a love song to the landscape, the stagnant herd of goats, growth, decay and the shepherding that walks between worlds.

anto_nie and Alex Sihelsk* build a utopian vision of a near future in which people living in small communities are dedicated to regenerating the landscape. They tell stories set in the pasture, on trains that only run between towns when there is enough electricity, in shared kitchens and vegetable gardens. Stories that blur the line between the human and the inhuman, between reality and fiction. This world was visited*for the first time by the author's film Zveromedze, which will be screened for the first time in Prague as part of the exhibition.

In an empty room stands a scarecrow / idol / monument / statue full of stories. It refers to the tradition of weaving grass into ornaments across European paganism, which could mythically provide crops but also very practically scare away birds and beasts. It depicts a symbol of the gender-neutral deity Nyas. The symbol of the Slavic deity of death stands out from the possible future reality/environment of Zveromedze in its multiplicity and also the possible improbability of its existence. We don't know if it is a real deity - Slavic mythology is either not extant, or is instead fictionalised or heavily coloured - but even this ambivalence of its possible (non-)existence seems to capture its meaning as a deity who stands at the boundary of life and death, decay and growth. It is also said to have functioned as a psychopomp - a guide of the soul, a shepherd of the afterlife who released his human flock from his care by cutting the thread of life.

The author duo set out to explore the liminal spaces between apparent opposites. The places between two different ecosystems are considered in ecology to be the places with the greatest species richness. Two different systems rub against each other, collide and seep into each other. And it is these liminal – transitional – places and creatures that play a central role in the new world. The liminal place is constantly on the edge of existence and non-existence. Like the border that we graze with a herd of goats to prevent it from turning into a permanent forest.