Students of KVKTT UHK: Give Me Vision of Yours, Please

Contemplation about the possibilities of interpretation is the basic crossroads for every visual artist. It has to be followed with ideas that result in a web-like tangle, characteristic to every particular artist. It is, therefore, necessary to examine this fundamental building block, which determines the final visual outcome, with extra care. This exhibition project was conceived exactly with that as an objective.

Tomáš Moravec and Tereza Severová are artists who also work in the Department of Visual Culture at the University of Hradec Králové. This exhibition is a response to a project they realized with their students. The aim is to create an environment of a necessary experiment, which could serve as a space for self-reflection for young artists.

During the academic year of 2017/2018 students from the studios of Spatial Production, Video or Photography took on a journey asking about vision itself. They observed visions in the context of art. In order to understand the future of their own production, they first had to ask where and how does a vision originate,

what shapes it and what influences it on its way to implementation. They followed on from their collective

contemplations about how visions originate in the mind of an artist. To understand and describe the creative process, the students conducted interviews with selected artists. They approached artists from local art scene whose work they find stimulating and inspiring. The interviewees were, for example, Ivan Kafka, Matěj Al- Ali, Pavla Sceranková, Veronika Večeřová, Eugenio Percossi, Václav Kopecký, Jiří Černický, Tomáš Hrůza, Kateřina Šedá, and others.

Selected fragments of interviews are part of the exhibition and at the same time served as a significant foundation for research. The students further worked with the collected information, following in loosely outlined, but never realized visions. An installation, created for the opening of the exhibition, will introduce a starting situation – an archive of so far collected works and texts dealing with the topic. During the exhibition, the students will aim to create a heterogeneous shape and make their collective vision materialize. This collective spatial installation will change with time, as the exhibition progresses. The individual phases of this process, spanning from the exhibition opening to the end of the exhibition will be closely documented