The interdisciplinary project reflects the research of American psychologist Paul Ekman, who conducted groundbreaking experiments on human emotions in the 1960s and 1970s. According to him, these feelings are mainly expressed through facial expressions. Ekman found that facial expressions of emotions are universal – people in Europe and in remote communities with no contact with Western culture have no difficulty recognizing facial expressions of primary emotions: joy, sadness, anger, fear, disgust.

It is these primary emotions, accompanied by surprise, that have become the main theme of the Hodonín exhibition. For each of them, one contemporary Czech artist was approached, whose works process this emotion through various media. Visitors can thus look forward to paintings, installations, sculptures, recordings of performances and collages. The exhibition will offer a powerful sensory experience: the viewer will not only be able to recognize the individual emotions, but also to experience them intensely.

exhibitors: Ester Hotová, Eva Jaroňová, Krištof Kintera, Kateřina Olivová, Hynek Skoták

curator / exhibition concept: Silvie Šeborová
curator from GVU Hodonín: Iveta Neuschlová