Bachelor final project
The initial source for this work are devastated houses in ghetto Předlice in Usti nad Labem. Artistic evaluation was focused on use of decrepit material. I selected the subject of daily needs, which lost its original function - in case of abandoned houses there were left only windows - and move them from the context of waste to the aesthetic value of artifact.
Outcome of this work was to make up a set of objects that use windows, the boundary between the external and internal environment, the membrane between the exterior and interior, between the intimate and public life. Composition resembling elements which have long ago vanished from inside of derelict buildings. The design here is primarily a metaphor for working with common window hinges anchoring in heterogeneous grouping composition that evocates furniture. Groupings are based on primary character of the utility product, but individual objects with their fragility of rottenness and damaged frames together with dangerous sharp splinter strongly reject trivial utility function.
This completely dysfunctional and irrational object is polemizing(arguing) with the idea that was placed in the past behind particular windows. Through progresive search and selection I created a set of windows which I infused with new entity or a provisional order. Individual objects are composed of found windows, some with the original glazed, others only with glass scraps or completely empty. During collection process I chose the glass shards, which I have inserted later onto empty windows to achieve intensive plasticity. Due to the fact that, after this operation there were places with a specifi c character (pea structure, frosted glass), I decided to also add some ordinary elements used on windows (blinds, curtains, white color). Although this intervention violated the original pragmatism of object taken out of an authentic environment, it humanized the whole work and emphasiced the emergence of fi ctional details of urban nature.
