We Are Smelly, Atomised, Chemical, Vanilla
Galerie Smečky•May 29, 2024 — Jul 27, 2024
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Jakub Choma's (*1995) largest exhibition project to date is composed of the artist's previous projects, which he transforms for the space of this gallery through his typical work in the medium of assemblage. Although at first glance this exhibition can be seen as a retrospective, a closer examination reveals that the visual poetics through which Choma explores the frictional surfaces of societal topics is a live, almost sculptural work with a medium on the border of installation within a specific environment. A sophisticated system, characterised by precise procedures and elaborate processing of materials, is built on the reworking of information from the artist's immediate surroundings – we can think of it as a fragmented whole using the flexible principle of the structure of a given medium. Choma himself refers to this assemblage as a resilient assemblage, which is not definitively terminated, on the contrary, it is connected only temporarily. This, in his conception, reflects a v…
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We Are Smelly, Atomised, Chemical, Vanilla
Galerie Smečky•May 29, 2024 — Jul 27, 2024
Press Release
Jakub Choma's (*1995) largest exhibition project to date is composed of the artist's previous projects, which he transforms for the space of this gallery through his typical work in the medium of assemblage. Although at first glance this exhibition can be seen as a retrospective, a closer examination reveals that the visual poetics through which Choma explores the frictional surfaces of societal topics is a live, almost sculptural work with a medium on the border of installation within a specific environment. A sophisticated system, characterised by precise procedures and elaborate processing of materials, is built on the reworking of information from the artist's immediate surroundings – we can think of it as a fragmented whole using the flexible principle of the structure of a given medium. Choma himself refers to this assemblage as a resilient assemblage, which is not definitively terminated, on the contrary, it is connected only temporarily. This, in his conception, reflects a v…
