or if it is in emptiness that our lives end. Perhaps our existence is built of collective memories and human life is a natural part of the whole. Maybe we don’t need to measure and have exact proof for everything. Maybe it is enough to wish, believe and strive to understand – and open ourselves to intuition and the fact that we are all part of the collective human experience.” Every day, most of us broadcast stories and images through channels that reach the entire world, not least via social media. Jakub Nepraš points out that these signals are measurable far beyond the stratosphere – that they
are absorbed in space, which transforms them into sound. No one can retrospectively decipher the noise from our messages. Yet fragments of them still remain, forever. Water is the primary focus of Transmitter, says the artist, along with the thoughts and lives of all civilizations that are stored in the continuously circulating water. “When the ocean retains and processes the information streaming from our homes and cities, it also becomes the carrier of memory – just like the universe and the Internet.” Jakub Nepraš’ Transmitter is also a satellite that can convey – or erase – our messages. The core of the
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transmitter is like a flower, a cry or an explosion leading to another existential level. Other parts are constructed of wood, reminiscent of a barge leisurely rowed along by strokes of the oars. A group of people are so fused together that they won’t grant passage to just anyone, and the bridges are narrow and difficult to cross. Suddenly, questions surrounding the current stream of refugees also spring to the surface. Jakub Nepraš was born in 1981 in Prague. He studied at Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and now exhibits throughout Europe.