The title Eternal Search for Water Where There Really is None describes the basic premise of Vladimir 518's new visual project: the human tendency to cling to ideas that promise fulfillment, even when we suspect they are an illusion. Water is a metaphor for meaning, certainty and fulfilment, while its absence refers to an existential groping, a constant movement between desire and emptiness.

Vladimir 518 translates this experience into a visual language that oscillates between ritualistic search and the harsh realities of the everyday. The symbolic figure of the dowser, the traditional seeker of hidden springs, finds its urban counterpart in the archetype of the boxer. Both represent figures on the edge: the dowser stands between the visible and the invisible, between intuition and physics, the boxer between control and chaos, rational strategy and instinctive strike.

Curator: Radek Wohlmuth