MERRY CRISIS

MERRY CRISIS, 2024

Lukáš Procházka, Dušan Chmeliar, Josef Frühauf

A3: 29,7 x 42 cm

RISO print, black paper

series of 50 pcs, available at YRA 25 pcs

(without frame)

The series of RISO prints MERRY CRISIS was created on the occasion of the installation of the same name in the public space, located on the FUCHS2 building. The installation is on view from 28 November 2024 to 1 February 2025.  

Annotation for the installation: 

The Christmas season is presented as a carefree period of joy associated with gift shopping and end-of-year celebrations. The constant advertising pressure, both on social media and in public space through illuminated advertisements and billboards, makes us forget about personal and social problems and, slightly dazed, transports us to the reality of the next year.

The overexposed theme of the environmental crisis and all the other local and personal ones comes along with the sobering of the new year. The social and public mood is comparable to the state of the streets and the garbage collection points on their corners. Hangovers accompanied by a convoy of cars caused by yet another blockade of the streets due to the climate become the colour of the journey to work.

The gradually collapsing neon Merry Crisis sign does not force us to start changing anything, it does not serve as an activator of resistance or activism. In the daily traffic jams that many of us experience as we pass by Fuchs, this sign unreservedly forces us to experience the ongoing end of the world on an individual basis.

additional photos of the installation: archive Libor Galia