"NEEDLE AND BALLO0N”
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Synagóga, Gallery Jan Koniarek
Centrum súčasného umenia - Centre for contemporary art
Halenárska 2, Trnava

13.5. – 16.8.2022
Opening: 12.5.2022 6PM

curated by Michal Stolárik
photography by Adam Šakový

Radek Brousil
Šimon Chovan
András Cséfalvay
Andrej Dúbravský
Ádám Horváth
Yein Lee
Kristián Németh
Céline Struger
Adam Vačkář
APART collective

❝ The current ecological and political situation or state of society, marked by the context of recent period of at least two years, make contemplations on fragility more pressing than ever. Such slogans as stability, value, and guarantee have lost their meaning. After all, the impossible and unimaginable seems to be possible and real.

The international exhibition Needle & Balloon is a response to the issue of fragility and related feeling of borderline tension. It follows central motifs in the context of contemporary visual arts, emerging on the background of deliberations on economic systems, the alarming ecological situation, the state of our planet, and the impact of today’s decisions on our potential future. The curator’s project focuses on a new-age emotionality and inner feelings, following inclinations towards personal mythology and renewed ideas of romanticism. The exhibition goes hand in hand with the feelings of anxiety, melancholy, and sadness, and intriguing aspects of fiction, mysticism, unsettled reality, and a dystopian and post-apocalyptic atmosphere. ❞

Michal Stolárik