Exhibition Talk
Your Addiction Is the Message

We cordially invite you to a guided tour on Wednesday, December 5, at 3:30 pm, which will take you through the final exhibition of the year-long Your Addiction Is the Message series. The series explored addiction and exit strategies through contemporary art in the context of current socio-cultural issues.

The event is part of the afternoon programme accompanying the current exhibitions:
15:30 guided tour of the exhibition Your Addiction Is the Message with curator Barbora Trnková
17:00 discussion and guided tour of Emergency. Preparations for the future with curator Lenka Dolanová and guests
18:30 guided tour of the exhibition Michaela Davidová: The Metabolising Analogue with curators Marika Svobodová, Tatiana Drgonec Dižová and Gajane Achverdjanová

Admission: 100 CZK

The tour will introduce works on display by Veronika Rónaiová, Hugo Llanes, Alfred Muszynski, Alicia Zaton and Zai Xu, whose projects address themes of personal challenges and the emergence of addictions in the context of society's expectations on the one hand and its indifference on the other. We will also focus on Serena JV Elston's collective project SPACORE, exploring the relationship between work and leisure shaped by capitalism, or the works of the duo Agata Konarska & Agata Lankamer, Viktor Dedek and Anastasija Pavić, reflecting on digital culture accelerating loneliness and social pressures.

We will also mention the way of thinking behind the whole cycle, concerning the relationship of art to the crises we face as a society, and briefly recap the exhibitions of 2024. One of them was Still Life With Message Box, in which Vojtěch Luksch combined the aesthetics of early computer games with kitsch landscapes, where the blunting of brutality may have revealed transgenerational traumas. Furthermore, the presentation of semester works of the Photography Studio of the FaVU BUT, which offered various approaches to the topic from the perspective of the students. The exhibition I'm Sorry You Feel That Way (Ethel Lilienfeld, Jiří Kaňák, Viktor Dedek) focused on how digital technologies not only change everyday reality, but also hinder necessary socio-cultural changes. And Lucie Tkáčová's exhibition There's No One To Live My Life invited us into the nooks and crannies of the inner reflection of the artist's family situation to touch upon the hopeless drama of the taboo consequences of alcohol addiction - a substance that is normalized in our culture.

The tour will be in English.