Curator: Jan Freiberg
18 February – 3 May 2026
The exhibition is based on the specific situation of the container transshipment terminal in the village of Lípa near Zlín, where global logistics infrastructure has fundamentally transformed both the landscape and the everyday experience of local residents.
Contemporary logistics does not produce architecture intended for dwelling, but rather a technical system optimized for the flow of goods. Its structures spread across the landscape regardless of historical layers, symbolic meanings, or the social bonds embedded in places. Logistics hubs thus become new yet concealed power nodes within the landscape — determining its functioning without being part of public space or subject to democratic oversight.
In the past, the most socially and economically significant buildings were located in city centers — churches, town halls, banks. Today, this role is assumed by logistics centers and transshipment terminals, which are pushed to the periphery, beyond the everyday perception of inhabitants and outside democratic control. The municipalities in which they are situated fragment into non-places without a genuine center.
The exhibition Alienated Landscape does not present this transformation as an abstract thesis, but as a physically experienced condition. The central gesture of the installation is a comparison between the volume of a standardized shipping container and the ground plan of the historic Chapel of the Virgin Mary in the village of Lípa near Zlín. The container model, assembled from cardboard boxes and complemented by a band of plaster imitating a cold industrial surface, refers to both the universality and the temporality of logistical structures.
A large-scale black-and-white photomural of Lípa overwhelmed by containers creates a monumental visual condensation of a landscape consumed by infrastructure, while the chapel’s ground plan — composed of plaster casts produced by the artist — reintroduces into the gallery space a human, slower, and historically grounded scale. The installation as a whole functions as a spatial map of the collision between two worlds: the world of commodity flow and the world of the old place.
The project was developed within the framework of the open call RodičOFFská, which supports artists whose work has been shaped by parental or caregiving experience.
