Klára Švandová↓

About the work

Heart is bleeding can we dreaming?

Klára Švandová pursues subjects revolving around the experiences of alienation, solidarity, sadness, and nostalgia. She links them with political issues, using them to open the dilemmas of today when it is increasingly difficult to cooperate and understand each other. In the first years of her studies, she focused on the fields of analog and digital photography and their limits, and later switched to videos and video installations. Her installations employ glass, textiles and found materials. She currently cooperates with the artist and musician, Ondřej Doskočil, and their joint project Shelter of Trust is part of the diploma thesis entitled “Heart is Bleeding Can We Dreaming?”

The installation and musical character of the project thematizes a fictional, yet potentially imaginable new culture based on the principles of its manifesto. The starting point is the left-wing black metal subculture, which gives rise to a new form of language by appropriating its features via music and visual art, while the latter serve the group to express and share its ideas. This culture is primarily based on trust and sharing of ideas without the fear of failure, without prejudice. The resulting environment is at least safe for the time being – before it has to change its form again and seek other means to sustain its idea.