Magdalena Deverová, Tomorrow Never Knows (excerpt)

For the Roudnice exhibition, the author connects the question of time with the fading existence of the physical material of newspapers, which he has been researching intensively in recent months. He is interested in the present, enslaved by digitisation, in which the medium of the printed newspaper is losing its meaning.

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Alongside printed sheets of specific photographic scenes, he offers visitors thousands of pages of newsprint with random dates from the future to take away. He develops the typography of the common typeface known from the daily press through computer 3D modelling, in the spirit of the aesthetics of the pop-art painter and photographer Edward Ruscha. […] Older technologies, such as printing on a rotary offset press, face imminent extinction. This creates a tension between the artificially created image or electronically available reproductions and the traditional technique of newspaper printing, a tension between virtual and real reality.

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The first date from the future marks the day right after the opening. The other dates, from a more distant era, are generated randomly. […] The viewer is invited to weave through a geometric system of thousands of newspaper sheets, arranged in a strict geometric grid. […] The viewer's role grows with the possibility of taking individual sheets of paper away.