Darina Molatová, Alexandra Cihanská Machová - Konejšit

The exhibition combines the sculptural work of Darina Molatová with the audiovisual works of Alexandra Cihanská Machová into one shared field of experience - a space where the body, memories and emotions are constantly being rewritten. The concept of the exhibition fits naturally into GaP's year-long programme, which focuses on the question of the human being - his or her body, identity and internal structures.

The title of the exhibition, Konejšit, does not here imply a simple reassurance or a return to equilibrium. It is not about the obliteration of pain, but about the process of staying with it - the subtle, sometimes minute, movement by which one learns to bear one's own experience. Conciliation thus takes place not as a solution, but as a relationship: to oneself, to others, to that which transcends and disturbs us.

Darina Molatová's three figures grow out of an intimate relationship with one's own body. They are not a representation of it, but rather its inner situation. Here the body becomes a place where experience is stored. It carries a memory that is not linear, but fragmentary, returning and sometimes even distorting the present. 

The geometric interventions that the figures disrupt can be read as external influences - expectations, relationships, the ideas of others - that inscribe themselves in the body and co-create its identity. This is not a sharp separation of the internal and the external. The body is opening up, losing its closedness and thus the certainty of its own wholeness. Each of the sculptures depicts a different form of this process: the breaking of boundaries, the vulnerability of the exposed interior and the moment of disintegration, which is also the condition of a possible new ordering. Identity here is not fixed, but arises in the tension between what is ours and what comes to us from the outside. It is precisely in this tension that conciliation emerges as an ambivalent gesture - it is not only a soothing, but also an awareness of a vulnerability that cannot be completely eliminated.

Into this silent space, Alexandra Cihanská Machová's audiovisual works enter, thematizing memory in a different way - through time, sound and repetition. Her works are based on field recordings and work with the voice, which gradually transforms, layers, graduates and disintegrates. The voice becomes a vehicle for experience, but at the same time recedes from clarity - like memory, shifting, losing and reassembling itself over time.

The layers of sound and image create an environment that the viewer finds themselves in, rather than merely observing. This is not an illustration of the sculptures, but a parallel plane - a different way of articulating the relationship between the experience and its trace. Here, too, conation is not manifested as harmony, but as a search for a tone that is born between chaos and order, between noise and silence.

The exhibition thus opens up the question of what actually constitutes a person. Is it the body that remembers? Or is it memory that constantly reshapes the body? How is our identity formed in contact with others, with the environment, with a past that cannot be completely separated from the present?

Konejšit is not the answer here, but a process. A subtle, fragile, never quite finished movement in which one relates to oneself again. The exhibition thus creates not a closed interpretation, but a space for shared experience - for encountering one's own body, memory and identity in their constant movement.