Lukáš Opekar

Kairos is an interactive still life — a contemporary vanitas. I invite the viewer to step inside a photograph and "draw time" with their hand on a touchscreen. The visual foundation of the project is time-lapse photography. Beneath the viewer's hand, gradual change is revealed: plants seem to come alive and wither again, ice grows and melts.

The connecting thread of the project is the theme of water as an all-permeating force. The objects I photograph — plants, ice, mushrooms and similar — are gathered in the suburbs, in quite ordinary places around me. I'm interested in how to extract an extraordinary experience from this ordinariness. I want to open new ways of perceiving, of sensitivity, of coexistence. To observe the intertwining of the artificial and the living, and to show that impermanence and life are two sides of the same coin.

More info: https://opekar.cz/Kairos