Eduard Klena

The exhibition *UNTIL THE DATE OF CLOSURE* is located on the second floor of the House of Arts (Dom umenia). It employs the visual language of a laboratory, a shelter,

a site of reconstruction or remodeling—a space concerned with sustainability and preservation. There is a strong emphasis on the recycling of materials, the layering of forms, structures, surfaces, analogies, and themes. The exhibition embraces multiplicity and the multiplication of meanings, while simultaneously maintaining a sense of distinct focus, purity, and clarity. Visitors embark on a journey through a space filled with absurd situations and compositions—scenes that are fascinating, surreal, and perhaps even slightly unsettling or menacing. They encounter an apocalyptic atmosphere: is this the state *before*? Or *after*? The environment, designed with

a scenographic sensibility, invites reflection, the discovery of associations, and the exploration of one’s own unique perspectives, narratives, and interpretations—some sustainable, others unsustainable... It will continue until time itself is exhausted. Its sustainability is merely temporary, as the eventual closure is tied to the concept of exhaustion—of running out, of being spent. How might one find a way that does not lead to total depletion—a model of sustainability and continuity? Sustainability in the human, natural, cultural, artistic, or even political sense? Perhaps this model must be constantly sought out and rediscovered—requiring, at the very least, the effort and the will to pursue it, thereby setting it in motion and keeping it alive. Even at the cost of (un)sustainable losses...

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co curated by Lenka Adamčáková, Marianna Brinzová, Eduard Klena