Zuzana Bartošová: Decimace

Decimation is a set of two light interactive objects that have a basis in the elemental natural shapes of stone and mountain. The work illustrates man’s relationship with nature and the transformation that is omnipresent. In my reasoning, I start from the belief that what man creates is natural to us and therefore natural, so transformation does not always have to be fundamentally bad. The entry of man is essential here, therefore his approach to the objects turns the noise of nature into digital noise and thus opens up space to reflect on the similarities of these two worlds. Decimation is thus a statement of the current or even future digital world in which we hide and escape from the real one. The term decimation is derived from one of the functions that was used in the creation of objects and at the same time resembles the term decimated, which can well describe this transformation or the state of a person. We can thus say that the objects adopt the means of expression of the digital environment and thus depict the transformation of the world around us.

The artistic intervention was selected from the projects registered in the KJM Open Call for interventions within the framework of Brno Art Week 2025.
Curator: Olga Čejková

Photo: Tereza Meiringerová