Get moving

MARKÉTA KINTEROVÁ - JAN FABIÁN

Exhibition: 8 September - 2 November 2023

We like to get moving. It's not very often because there's always something to do, but then it comes and we get moving. It's clear that as a family we are always on the move, the unit doesn't stand still, it can't stop, it's a perpetual motion machine. The rhythm of day and night. Day is the movement in the light, night is the stopping that ends early in the morning. What does the night actually bring? If there's no place to live, then worry. How to ensure sleep without being disturbed or attacked, be it by people, animals or the weather.
Our houses are actually hardened tents. We use them to defend ourselves against the environment. We adapt our daily activities to them, to keep them, to charge them, to cook in them and to go back to sleep. So that in the morning we can go out to meet the activities that will provide them.
The worst thing about tents is that you, civilized man, buy them to relax. You'll be relaxing in them on an expensively bought holiday for a cheap 4 990,- with a fictitious water column above you. But at the same time, it's beautiful because you're the case who wants to go outside the city or between the cities or somewhere in the cultural landscape you think of as nature, and you want to take in the surroundings there. And let the water column fall all over you. And that's good, because somebody else is going to Hurghada and that's fucked up.
And then there's the thing that the sail has two sides. It just always has a reverse and a face. The way because you can and the way because you have to. Like south to north or east to west. Not many people have to go the other way. Or maybe we don't have to go far at all, because the crazy tent city for people who stepped out of the system and couldn't or wouldn't go back in is about a half-hour walk away. And even quicker back again. A piece of cloth is a home you want to leave so badly. If you have to. If you don't have to, you can enjoy the piece of cloth as much as you like. You can love it, cherish it, and then you can throw it in the trash when the time comes when it's no longer meant to be used. And now we have it here in Olga. Pieces of fabric that perhaps more than anything else were objects of expectation. Because when we get to the campsite, it's gonna be great. When you get out of the makeshift, too.
Markéta Kinterová