2009.The Royal Road through Prague spanning from the Castle over the Charles Bridge to the Astronomical Square is the main attraction in Prague. People equipped with cameras are walking in an unstoppable flow that glides through the city – only with quick pauses for the mandatory Kodak moments. The city is reduced to a set of scenes. No one really cares what it all contains as long as they can take their pictures.
This project is about creating a new kind of awareness of the Prague context – and generally expand the meaning of the word context. A sort of inhabitable camera obscura is introduced aiming for the tourist to see the surroundings in a new perspective.The scenery is deconstructed into fragments, re-arranged and multiplied into cave structures. The deconstruction forces one to visualize the image and reconstruct it – and not just quickly scan it through the camera’s viewfinder. In this process new stories will emerge.
Merleau-Ponty asks: ‘Where is the water - at its reflections or where you get wet?’ In the same way the scenery is repositioned and you put your body into a landscape of reflected and refracted images. It’s a decomposition of the solid. An optical illusion of space very far from the visual solidness of the Royal Road. One is forced to feel the surroundings and one self; this is a sensory apparatus.
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