Markéta Vinglerová, You Can't Change the Weather

Aleksandra Vajd, Hynek Alt
You Can't Change the Weather

With their project You Can't Change the Weather, Aleksandra Vajd and Hynek Alt transformed the space of the etc. gallery into a temporary testing room.

For a period of three weeks, they worked on a new series of photographs, which document the working process and partial results of experiments simulating various climatic conditions. The motif of the weather and its changes represented by the chosen diagrams in a series is not exhaustive, but stands for a number of possible approaches to the complexity of a phenomenon that exceeds human understanding. The project thematizes natural unintelligibility forming a loose parallel to the utopian attitude of the artist who wants to grasp the surrounding world and its ways. In other words, to depict the order of the world and its laws is impossible, despite all our plans set out in advance.

These works were put on display one by one in the space of the gallery, which functioned both as a studio/workshop and as an open space for the audience.

In the course of the project, the audience was able to freely observe the process of production as well as the fragmentary and instant results of the activities of both artists, whose work is documented with a selection of photographs in the catalogue.