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Insomnia - daytime

The project takes place in Predlice district, a problematic suburb in town of Usti nad Labem, with lots of abandoned houses since decades as result of heavy historic legacy and social marginalization at present time. The project consists of simple intervention of installing secondhand electric lamps and candelabras in one of the abandoned houses. Lamps are working nighttime.

Two contradictory impressions comes as visual result of the intervention. From one hand the light spread out from lamps and candelabras is bringing sense of warmth and homey, brings filling of vitality, but from an other hand, thus the same light is revealing, making painfully visible from outside the graphic image of ruination and abandonment.

The project is trying to work with oppositions as curiosity–indifference, public–homey, memory–forgetting, downfall–keeping.