Materia Prima, a private collection is the name for a fictional collection of artworks that date to the 21st century. The artworks contain mythological meaning in their original archaic context, when myth represented a true story. The individual works do not reflect specific myths, but are inspired by them. For example, the creation myth is embedded in every religion and culture. One of the works, Garage Offerings, is loosely inspired by the ritual celebration of the Owasa people of the Niasan tribe in Indonesia. The so called Festival of Merit was characterized by the waste of accumulated wealth, with participants displaying their possessions. Three hundred or more pigs were killed. This festival represents, through the orgy of pigs and the waste of property, an expression of the wealth and abundance that was put into the act of creating the world. In turn, people who found themselves destitute after the feast gained greater social prestige. In other works, it is not so much a reference to mythology as the magical purpose of the object. The stand wrapped in mouflon skin The shaman‘s stick is inherently an object with a magical function, but here, under the fringe of the black leather wig, there is a home made magnifying device (a projection „camera obscura“), which was used to make an image on canvas called the Boar using a light sensitive emulsion and a negative. The asphalt object in the shape of a Matriarchy cube with a woman‘s face and a never fading plant is a celebration of the Great Mother. Finally, the set concludes with the theme of death and the afterlife, represented here by the asphalt cast of The Engagement for Jacob.
130cm (leather, wood, condenser, LED headlamp), Žitenice 2014
sticks / 50x100cm / Naples 2013
/ Dolní Břežany 2014
