Opening: 7. 9. 2025 18:00
Exhibition: 8. – 14. 9. 2025 Open daily 13:00 – 19:00
Realization: Světlana Silič, Veronika Svobodová
Concept: PYL collective – Maryia Kamarova, Světlana Silič, Anna Romanova
Would you like to experience what it is like to be a flying insect approaching a soft drink? Or perhaps how to transform into an alternative fur seal? Or alternatively an alternative grasshopper? In Holidays From the Bigger World, the PYL collective offers these very possibilities to anyone who is tired of inhabiting a confined human body.
Audiences of all ages are invited to set aside rational logic and dive headfirst into a new reality co-created with a plethora of unexpected species. By accepting the terms and conditions of this game, you can witness the sudden metamorphosis of a mobile phone box into a dolphin’s fin, or declare your affection to a futuristic Talking Swamp (in which you cannot drown). On this occasion, a gallery space becomes a playground on which you can create your own meaning.
The project aims to discover possibilities of engagement with daily materials through embodiment and close interactions involving haptic, visual, and sonic senses. Its main focus is formulated around the materiality and the participative aspect of spectatorship in installation art. In this project, PYL collective explores scenographic settings that reduce the distance between the potential audience and the artwork. This is achieved through the use of interactive technologies, scores, and simple objects whose appearance prompts curiosity and provokes action.
Graphic: Žofia Fodorová
Photo: Ondřej Konrád
Acknowledgement: Theresa Schrezenmeir, GAMPA, Terén – pole performativního umění
Project supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and Prague 7 – Art District 7
