Dear Walkers, we cordially invite you to see the first Open Call exhibition Annoying Electric Bloom Spotted by Weru Špundová. Art walks will be possible from 15/5 to 26/6 2025.
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The exhibition Annoying Electric Bloom Spotted by Veronika Špundová presents a series of textile hanging objects that merge chaotic jellyfish-like monsters, The Last of Us cordyceps, and Lovecraftian-Cronenbergian tentacles with meme iconography. These tapestries are not just visions from a bizarre dream. They are also survival maps for navigating a toxic patriarchal reality. On their surfaces, internet imagery, color gradients, digital fragments, and buried archetypes converge. Stitched, threaded, and tied together with paracord ropes. Dreamlike narratives sprout from the objects, telling stories about the body, power, ecology, and mental health, inspired by drawings, craft, and female experience.
The exhibition’s playful title evokes Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. It might be a coincidence, but both titles have a similar feel: a bit wild, vividly impressionistic, and reaching for something restless and hard to pin down. An electric bloom that slowly, and then suddenly, swallowed us whole. It disturbs like the colorful chaos of images and sensations bombarding us from omnipresent screens. Just as Wolfe once chronicled what was then seen as the eccentric culture of the 1960s, Veronika’s exhibition responds to our present-day world – overloaded, noisy, full of strange stimuli that are sometimes beautiful, sometimes annoying, but definitely impossible to ignore.
Michaela Žůrková
