17 September – 18 November 2026
architecture: Adam Trbušek
graphic design: BFF Studio (Adéla Bierbaumer, Marek Fanta)
artists: Hynek Alt, Nikola Balberčáková, Mark Cinkevich, Anna Engelhardt, Cécile B. Evans, Daniel Felstead, Jenn Leung, Zeynep Gönen, Angus Hamilton James, Finley Highton, Eliška Konečná, Jakub Krejčí, Dmitrii Ostretsov, Mikuláš Rett, Alex Selmeci, Tomáš Kocka Jusko, Total Refusal, Alice Ullsperger, Dušan Zahoranský
Václav Janoščík, Infrastructures: to make room for the desires of another
In his work, Hynek Alt often unfolds the medium of photography in order to find depth within it, a diagonal passage beyond the image itself.
In the series Untitled (Infrastructures & The Beach), he seemingly only maps excavations in the streets of Prague. The title of the series of photographs, however, refers to the famous slogan of the 1968 Paris demonstrations: "Under the paving stones, the beach" (Sous les pavés, la plage). This famous slogan, but also a pre-internet meme, undoubtedly opens up the revolutionary and surrealist ambitions of the late 1960s. Beneath the surface of everyday life, beauty, intensity, and otherness need to be rediscovered.
The point, then, is not that our exuberant cultural life emerges above the level of mundane technical infrastructure. Rather, the opposite is true: deep beneath the level of our everyday lives lie infrastructures of emotions, history, stories, and encounters, which we have to reach through excavations, repairs, borrowings, and digging through the various layers of cultural, technical, and material history.
