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Šnek
Martin Chramosta, Šárka Koudelová
text Anežka Jabůrková
Šnek, a trace of German sound fossilised in Czech speech, another piece of evidence alongside shared street names, family names, and trade routes that bind people across space. One word pointing to a complexity of relationships that transcend frontiers in a world that constantly draws borders, demarcates, and pigeonholes.
In the joint exhibition of Martin Chramosta and Šárka Koudelová, the snail manifests less as a creature than as a conceptual starting point for thinking about shelter, vulnerability, and form. The shell the snail carries on its back is a symbol of heaviness – we all bear histories, stories, and thoughts that we take with us wherever we go – but also a sculptural principle of building, layering, and repurposing materials, to which both artists return in different ways.
Historically, in the Czech language, šnek did not name the animal at all: it denoted a spiral staircase or a screw-like form, a ‘snail shape’ used…
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Šnek
Martin Chramosta, Šárka Koudelová
text Anežka Jabůrková
Šnek, a trace of German sound fossilised in Czech speech, another piece of evidence alongside shared street names, family names, and trade routes that bind people across space. One word pointing to a complexity of relationships that transcend frontiers in a world that constantly draws borders, demarcates, and pigeonholes.
In the joint exhibition of Martin Chramosta and Šárka Koudelová, the snail manifests less as a creature than as a conceptual starting point for thinking about shelter, vulnerability, and form. The shell the snail carries on its back is a symbol of heaviness – we all bear histories, stories, and thoughts that we take with us wherever we go – but also a sculptural principle of building, layering, and repurposing materials, to which both artists return in different ways.
Historically, in the Czech language, šnek did not name the animal at all: it denoted a spiral staircase or a screw-like form, a ‘snail shape’ used…
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