Things Shining in the Light of Their Imminent Disappearance

Things Shining in the Light of Their Imminent Disappearance
ongoing series, 2014 –

Fine art prints, various dimensions

The “serious” collectors choose their objects for very particular reasons, following their taste, the market value and distinct categories, while others (“intuitive” collectors?) build their collections on a different base: a thing speaks to them or it doesn’t, regardless of its monetary value.

I find myself in the latter group. This analog photographic series evolve around some questions I’ve pondered over in the last years, walking around flea markets in different cities, touching things, acquiring some of them: what happens once objects shed off their original function and enter the blurred territory of those discarded, unwanted, forgotten? Do their atoms reorganize themselves into a new order of post-existence, of newly gained freedom of not having to serve a purpose?
Do these objects feel the pull of the unknown (The end? A new beginning?), do they feel free or do they slowly turn into particles orbiting within the rings of Saturn’s melancholy?

The title of this work is borrowed from Juliana Sokolová’s poem Weeping for Cassini, a part she borrowed from Franz Wright’s poem “Language, my country”, in God’s Silence

(Installation shots by Jakub Hájek)