PLEXUS

'Plexus' explores the psychological terrain of external change through a relatively unsettling audiovisual meditation. Against the backdrop of Usti's bare urban silence, this loop media work questions the dialectics of warmth and cold, movement and stillness. Someone not from here performs a self-reflection ritual in the gloomy Czech landscape. Through deliberately fragmented sequences, the work brings together contrasting elements: a persistent flame defying water, bare feet marking temporary existence, and reflective surfaces that both reveal and obscure. These elements function as metaphors for cultural diaspora and the ongoing search for identity in foreign spaces. Accompanied by the tension between internal chaos and external stillness, recurring motifs of water and fire evoke an alchemical transformation. This cyclical narrative problematizes the linearity of perceptions concerning adaptation and belonging, hence creating a visual syntax that puts into words the contemporary experience of cultural recalibration. 'Plexus' comes through as a sort of meditation on this liminal state of the artistic self, caught in the middle between cultural paradigms, though finding its own poetry precisely in this suspended condition.

2023

Tušit Kruhy

HAIKU

‘IV’ EP