About project
The exhibition Strange Attractions, realized in cooperation with Signal Festival and Kunsthalle Praha, presents the current work of the legendary British studio UVA – United Visual Artists.
The exhibition project highlights the parallels between the unpredictability of chaos theory and the structured patterns that emerge from it. By examining the nuanced boundary between order and chaos, the exhibition reflects on how these principles manifest across nature, artistic processes, and societal structures, encouraging viewers to contemplate the complex dynamics shaping our environment.The works presented invite viewers to consider how initial conditions and underlying dynamics shape the increasing urgency of phenomena in our environment, offering a deeper understanding of the intricate beauty of chaotic systems.
The exhibition’s centrepiece is a kinetic horizontal double pendulum, enhanced by projectors illuminating the gallery walls. The pendulum’s movements are translated in real-time into data, driving dynamic projections that connect physical and digital realities. This synthesis of order and chaos seamlessly blends the tangible with the intangible, the visible with the invisible, offering an experience that unfolds through time and motion. Both pendulum rotations are converted in real time into data that is used to control the dynamic projections. The synthesis of order and chaos thus occurs in an instant, combining the tangible with the intangible, the seen with the unseen, and offering an experience that can only be understood through the unfolding of movement and time.
The exhibition presents three further works from UVA: Present Shock, Etymologies, and Serendipity, which develop the dynamic themes of order and chaos at the levels of language, social and economic phenomena, and space-time theories.
