On The Hoof
The exhibition On the Hoof (Na jedno kopyto) brings together the audiovisual cycle Wild Wild Beast and a spatial installation spread across the niches of Galerie Kontext. This project is the result of a collaboration between the D’epog collective, filmmaker Marie Šprincl, and scenographer Matěj Sýkora. Alongside the sculptural installation, the heart of the exhibition is a cinematic experience, featuring the first two episodes of the series and a teaser for the third.
Wild Wild Beast is a four-part audiovisual series, co-produced with ArtyčokTV, an online platform for contemporary art. Drawing inspiration from the horror acid-western genre, the series explores the collapse of Western civilization. It is the result of a collaboration between the D'epog collective and filmmaker Marie Šprincl and set designer Matěj Sýkora. The fictional documentary self-referential framework of the actors' backstage life is interspersed with a trash retro-aesthetic. Through this cinematic mini-series, the work raises questions about the limits of humanity and what distinguishes human institutions from the atrocities they can perpetrate.
Matěj Sýkora
Theatrical set designer, film architect, and performer, long-time member of D’epog. Known for his playful, postmodern creative signature exploring the aesthetics of subversive visual gestures.
Marie Šprincl
Film editor and director who also works on music videos, theatre performances, and gallery installations. Her work carries a haunting, poetic quality, drawing from the darker edges of reality and the tactile, hands-on approach of analog techniques. Straddling fiction, documentary, and experimental forms, her pieces often explore the many faces of societal evil, subtly hidden just beneath the surface of everyday life.
Support
The project is co-produced with the contemporary art internet platform ArtyčokTV