Marie Boková, Kryštof Vícha
Distorza
HIDDEN UMPRUM
14. 10. 2025 / 7. 12. 2025
We are delighted to present another exhibition at HIDDEN UMPRUM, featuring students of Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague.
Artworks available upon request.
The work of Kryštof Vícha and Marie Boková is connected by a deep interest in a common theme, the age-old problem of the duality of body and mind.
In his work, Kryštof tries to capture the universal human struggle, which is identification with one's own body. This is both our protection and limitation, our bridge to the world and a source of frustration. His ceramic objects resemble amorphous fragments of human bodies. When viewed closely, they take on clearer anatomical shapes. This process reflects movement on the axis of indifference and understanding, alienation and acceptance.
In Marie's work, duality manifests itself not only as a relationship between body and soul, but as a tension. She explores it through the principle of countertransference: in the mirror of others, we see our own shadows and possibilities. The body becomes a place of confrontation between opposing impulses, construction and destruction, defense and openness, illness and recovery. These traces create the body's personal memory, in which the past is inseparably inscribed into the present. Many things remain behind the curtain and, whether we like it or not, determine how we behave. Somewhere behind it is another Marie who feels all the things that are behind the curtain. Only they are not separate poles, but two sides of the same whole.