ENTROPA

Each country in the EU puzzle is represented by non-existent artists.They've got names, artificially created identities, and some even have their own websites. The proposal was presented just as it is – those are the images that are on the internet and were approved. And that it was made by 27 people is really part of the concept. It’s part of a high art game, part of an art game that’s sort of politically incorrect. No Czech installation in Brussels was ever discussed and suddenly it’s known that the Czech Republic holds the presidency. If nothing else, this is positive. Opposite Entropa is a poster for an exhibition about divided Europe, West and East. It’s been twenty years since the fall of the iron curtain and the comparison is interesting. It shows what the Eastern Bloc was – it was a place where people couldn’t speak about anything, people couldn’t make fun of anything, everyone had to stand in awkward silence, and if anyone poked fun of Husák they went to jail. But humor is a warped mirror, just look at yourself. In this case, I also made fun of myself to a certain sense. But it also has a positive trait – it leads to catharsis, which relieves the pent-up stress or crap that remains inside us.