Exhibition: Honestly, It’s Not Just a Room
year: 2025
place: City Surfer Office, Prague
concept,edit: Savka Marenić
camera: Nika Datiashvili
sound design: Jonáš Balcar
curator: Max Dvořák
The exhibition Honestly, It’s Not Just a Room shifts attention to the gallery space itself. Rather than functioning as a neutral backdrop, the space becomes the central focus — through its sounds, rhythms, light, and subtle phenomena that often escape our attention yet shape our experience. The gallery’s storage areas, utility rooms, and backstage zones move into the foreground, while the main exhibition hall is intentionally left empty.
Grounded in reflections on the ecology of attention, acoustics, and the aesthetics of care, the project approaches care as a deliberate act of slowing down and stepping aside from the pace of a performance-driven society. The exhibition invites gentleness, deep listening, and an awareness of relationships that are fragile, interrupted, ambiguous, and multi-voiced.
Nothing spectacular is imposed on the space. Instead, it proposes a quiet shift in perception: a room capable of generating its own scenarios when we allow it to — and, at times, of existing without a script at all.
Grounded in reflections on the ecology of attention, acoustics, and the aesthetics of care, the project approaches care as a deliberate act of slowing down and stepping aside from the pace of a performance-driven society. The exhibition invites gentleness, deep listening, and an awareness of relationships that are fragile, interrupted, ambiguous, and multi-voiced.
Nothing spectacular is imposed on the space. Instead, it proposes a quiet shift in perception: a room capable of generating its own scenarios when we allow it to — and, at times, of existing without a script at all.
