Selmeci Cube Jusko - Tower part 1

The exhibition continues the artists' long-standing interest in the motif of the vessel. The container as a bag - a tool to carry things, as a means to transfer information or, on the contrary, as a box to keep, a shelter or a dwelling, where the home is just another bigger pocket, a container for people. In the context of small-scale and animal architecture, it develops a consideration of forms of dwelling, coexistence, vulnerability and mechanisms of control.

Selmeci Kocka Jusko (Alex Selmeci and Tomas Kocka Jusko) work as an artistic duo. They explore the relationship between visual representation, memory and perception, using experimental approaches to the structure of the exhibition space. They create complex intermedia installations or, on the contrary, present sets of physical objects that function as energy capsules. Their practice often employs soft technologies of repair and makeshift structures, emphasizing permeability rather than closure. They experiment with systems of measurement and use intuitive methods to explore how time, scale and quantity can be embodied in material form. Their work is also concerned with the relationship between labour, exhaustion and imagination, viewing artistic practice not only as a form of production but also as a humble utopian gesture of attention and empathy. Through strategies of slowness and retreat, Selmeci and Kocka Jusko consider forms of resistance to acceleration and precarity, imagining post-work scenarios and possibilities for ecological regeneration.

Opening of the exhibition.

Duration of the exhibition: 18 September - 12 October 2025
Opening hours: Tue - Fri / 15.00 - 18.00
Šopa Gallery, Hlavná 40, Košice

The realization of the works from public funds in the form of a scholarship supported by the Fund for the Support of Art. The project was further supported by the City of Košice and the Košice Self-Governing Region.