2023
TIC Gallery
wood, concrete, sand, cement, styrofoam, paint, ceramic clay, metal, sand
together with Erika Velická
Marie Štindlová: The place of otherness, emptiness, formation, potentiality of sensory perceptible materiality; Khora, emerges in the exhibition of Tereza Kalousová and Erika Velická in the form of a symbol referring to the architecture of Greek temples and theatres covered with sand and overgrown by bushes. The artists have established a dislocated place, hovering in the gap which a gallery in the city centre, by itself, can be. They have created a space for contemplation, idleness and daydreaming over healing and signs and sharing the void. In the spirit of post-structuralist thinkers, Kalousová and Velická appropriate and revise the notion of Khora as defined by Plato. In their reading, Khora (like the womb, the mother, or simply woman) is not an impure third species necessary for the exercise of reason, but a fertile, mysterious, creative force. The place at the edge of all matter, the silence that is the condition for formation or transformation. An in-between space without whose permanence neither creation nor healing is possible.
