beau travail

2026
INTERVENTION
Metal construction props, sanded paint
Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning (CAMP), Prague, CZ

Curator: Denisa Václavová Text: Erika Velická, 2026 Photo: Jan Malý, 2026

When renovation begins, representative spaces are usually covered with non-woven fabric, plastic sheeting and a layer of dust. Chandeliers and fluorescent lights are disconnected, and the space is lit only by the feeble, cold light of halogen lamps.

X – 5×6

“The marble fountain in Vysoké Mýto was demolished. No one knew it was a work of art.”

The arches of the reliefs lining the Prager’s Cubes building are gradually traced into the interior as a negative projection. Reinterpretation is not an unusual practice: artworks that were part of architecture often perish during renovation. (Walk around the gallery.)

Y – 12

A busy place is suddenly empty.

Galvanized scaffolding tubes at the building’s structural nodes support the ceiling, more to bear the weight of the intended changes than anything else. Emaciated caryatids, reminiscences of post and lintel. (Pace out the six meters between the columns.)

X – number of segments in the relief

Y – number of props