As part of the project Počátky světů: proces umělecké tvorby (The Beginnings of Worlds: The Process of Artistic Creation), ten FHS students participated in the preparation of an exhibition and curatorial texts for exhibition called Collision by painter Julia Kopová, who is also a graduate of our faculty. We therefore invite you to the opening on 17 June at 19 in the Platform 15 gallery, where the exhibition will take place until 18 July. The curator is Radek Wohlmuth.
Just like planets, whose landscapes are the result of collisions, explosions and endless impacts of cosmic material, the human soul also fulfills the same principle. We are constantly reshaping ourselves again and again through collisions that disrupt the boundaries of our being. The atmosphere protects us from the impact of a meteorite, but its protection is not unconditional; then there seems to be no escape: paralysis sets in with wide-eyed terror. But isn’t the moment of shock the key moment of the soul and its transformation? Can’t we only approach the uniqueness that can only be achieved through endlessly breakneck development in this way? The disruption of boundaries, the awareness of one’s own soul and the moment of collision with the outside world is a topic that currently touches me deeply. From the east and the west, from yesterday and tomorrow, meteorites are falling, causing havoc. Fortunately, however – and perhaps above all – every meteorite is a meteor, an amazing phenomenon in the atmosphere. Something that gives hope, like the saying: "A shooting star, make a wish." Few collisions are fatal and are not opportunities. Hope dies last: like a meteorite cooling in the ground over which it first shone as a shooting star.
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