About project
Collective of Artists: Marie Tučková, Katarina Gryvul, David Přílučík, artistic duo Selmeci Kocka Jusko (CZ/SK/UA)
This audiovisual project, created in collaboration with the “Save the Confluence” initiative and an international team of artists (Marie Tučková, Katarina Gryvul, David Přílučík, and the artist duo Selmeci Kocka Jusko), explores the newly established Confluence Protected Landscape Area. The project focuses on the unique ecosystem of the confluence of Moravy a Dyje rivers, the largest floodplain forest in Europe. The confluence of rivers is not only a site of fragile natural processes but also a key part of Central Europe’s landscape heritage. The project highlights the tension between stability and transformation in nature and seeks solutions and explores how we might, in today’s world, where natural processes and human activities often collide, develop new ways of coexisting with the landscape.
The installation includes a monumental object that reflects the fragility of the constant balancing act between massive and invasive interventions in the environment and slow and patient efforts to restore it. The object, in the form of a simple diagram that translates into space, distinguishes between these two different ways of relating to the landscape—the needs of the map and the needs of the territory. The motifs on the object’s small screen respond to the large-format LED projection and together thematize the tension between infrastructural interventions and the environmental memory of the place.
The work was created in collaboration with the European project Co-Vision and will also be exhibited internationally, extending beyond the Signal Festival.
