bambini's

Under the title Bambini’s the amt _ project gallery is presenting four students of fifth grade from studio IN leading by Ilona Németh at the Academy of fine arts and design in Bratislava. The line, which occurs in these works is handling of space, motion, identity and metaphore.

Daniel Dida is presenting two works of which is common factor his private space and its consequential transfer or transcription into other space – in this case the gallery space. It offers to spectator the view from the window in text form, machine - and literal- transcript of that, which can be observed from the window of the room where he lives at the moment.
In the second part, on the other hand the window serves as a filter or frame through which the sunbeams penetrate. On the wall is being projected the sun-created image. The projection becomes some kind of interconnection between the private space and gallery. But it does not reflect the space as such, it concernes the fragment transfer the certain moment. The entire projection is concieved in such manner, that the spectator steps between the projector and the wall – it becomes a part of the fragment.

Ľudmila Horňáková has processed the theme from inside of her own family. Metaphore of inactive hands in the position of "grinding the flour" tells about quandary and inactivity, but not about the will to be inactive. In the centre is not the person´s identity, but its status recorded in minimum motion. Eight months visualized into the gloomy symbology of unemployness and collective family suffering, lapsing out of the specific fact.

Lucie Mičíková inspired by old fashioned traveling – true recording of physically travelled, has produced her own travelers album, some kind of unreal bedecker of experience. She has transformed by double treating her self-captured footage from the tourist guides, comprising various wonderful glossy photos situated in library in Petržalka, into the personal testimony of her own movement on the places where she has never been but wanted to. She brings the unreality to our attention by indications – visible library stamp and absurdity of being on several places at the same time.
The manipulative video which is an element of the author´s intention, evokes by using the light a loss of an illusion about the look on the real static scenery.

Zuzana Žabková still continues to work with the topic of identity, this time she brings to attention her own identity again. In the video called Malá Odysea I. (Little Odyssey I.), there is possible to find Gagarin´s messages in a month of the cosmic anniversary and legacy but it is related to the personal desire to own a bit of eternity. Condition, which often concerns everyone of us – to roll around the emptiness.

Text: Michal Húska