Crack – ŽIŽA Festival 2025

A wall may seem like a termination, but even the strongest wall has some weakness — a small flaw, a crack through which light can penetrate. And perhaps it is through these cracks that transformation occurs. What initially appears to be a disruption of the solid and the given can become an entry point for light, bringing change. A moment of rupture. 

The installation „Trhlina“ (Crack) works with the simple principle of light deformation through material – an effect that has been, is, and will continue to be used for the beauty of its simplicity. The installation offers the observer the opportunity to return to the mythical understanding of light as a force that penetrates darkness and matter.

But a crack does not have to be only physical, it can also be internal. In a person, in time, in space. „There is a crack in everything, that’s how light gets in.“ Leonard Cohen.