Ether

Author: Hoffman Tomáš

Year of foundation: 2021

Technical University of Liberec
Faculty of Art and Architecture
Department of Art
Degree: Bachelor
Year of studies: 3

We can perceive natural phenomena as original and pure works of art, whether they are devastating earthquakes, romantic aurora borealis or mysterious inversions. It is always a genuine dialogue between these phenomena and our world, where one becomes a mere spectator. The beginnings of contact between humanity and these, even theatrical, natural phenomena came as early as prehistoric times. Prehistoric man at the time was much more connected to the natural world, and in these incomprehensible phenomena he found the beginnings of his faith in something higher. Even though the mysteries of natural phenomena are solved today, one still finds feelings of something more powerful when looking at them. I try to process this idea and feelings that have accompanied human beings since prehistoric times in my work. The installation consists of several elements - blue space, which transports the viewer to the cosmic view of our blue planet, fog acting as an ever-changing sculpture, fine volatile matter, which is mysterious and absorbing, white structures symbolizing a place "above all else". The path leading to nothingness and at the same time to everything.