PYLON documentation pt. 4

(…) The underworld of our cities is inhabited by mice. They live on the reverse side of our daily lives and probably know a lot more about us than we know about them. Céline thematises our haughty and futile attempts to control the underworld (and death?) and in the exhibition uses mousetraps as pinhole cameras with which she takes simple photographic records of the space.

Therapist and educator Lois Tonkin2, who has long explored the ways in which we grieve and cope with loss, in her article, Growing Around Grief – another way of looking at grief and recovery, describes a concept that she visualizes in three situations – first, grief fills completely our entire lives with darkness (1), and although we expect it to abate, the darkness to recede and occupy only a small part (2), it never does. On the contrary, the boundary of our existence will outgrow the dark grief that still fills our whole old life (3). The place of passage where light enters the dark room and life finds its way out may be called a pylon.

Text by Šárka Koudelová

FC: Juliana Vlčková

The project is implemented with support from City of Prague, State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic, Madbir s.r.o. and The Roman Catholic Parish of Kutná Hora – Sedlec.