Sip the Fountain

We are in a state between naivety and knowledge, relativism and truth, optimism and doubt. Perhaps a walk in the woods is no more valuable than hours spent on internet forums and social media. Maybe our virtual selves know where is the passage to a hidden paradise. Meme from an unknown author told us where to look for it. Where you would make a thick line and call everything beyond it a cringe, we see a way of operating outside of binary patterns. We uncritically blur the lines between irony and sincerity and encourage a seamless fusion of micro-trends, hapticism, and a complete democratization of aesthetic approaches.

The narrative proceeds on several levels, which may be hidden and seem banal to many. It uses mimicry or remixing of content, intertextuality - creating a collage of shitposting and memes from online discussion forums like 4chan, reddit. Naive child aesthetics associated with gen alpha / ipad babies- mobile / online games, skibidi toilet, among us, roblox and others. The reality of late capitalism corporate graphics, mantras like "Live Love Laugh", motivational quotes and normcore fashion: cheap trinkets, keychains, kitsch, fake luxury to tourist realism.

Curator team: Barbora Pavlasová, Kryštof Nosek and Adam Žufníček
Graphics: Margarita Ryzhakova