Hynek Alt's series Untitled (Sculptures in the Air, 2020) also examines the relationship between man and the objects he moves and supports. Alt's hanging collages depict sculptures and details of sculptures that are displaced from their original location for a variety of reasons. In the life of the statues, originally designed for stillness, a specific agency seems to flare up in a unique, intermediate moment, similarly as in the case of Spejbl. In the case of public sculptures, this moment is often linked to a paradigm shift, to a certain political decision, or even a change in the social-ideological system that has prevailed until then. Alt does not simply capture these significant moments, but he also renders these strikingly static objects event-like and turn their temporality into a suspended state.

For the collages, he uses low-quality documentation photos taken by employees of the Prague City Gallery, that, besides the sculptures themselves, also depict the hands holding them, the tools and materials that protect them, and further, rather incidental details.

Borbála Szalai, How Soon Is Now, NoD Gallery, Prague, 2020