Are we a vector or vector intersection? I Is the objective presentation of our (in social networks constantly floating) self walking the street or, on the contrary, are we the evolutionary expansion of the organic substance of this planet, its tentacles, into the sphere of another, digital being? Our body is a kind of funnel between two realities in which the body of the virtual reality penetrates the objective body - the biological organism. The work of artists selected for this exhibition is often associated with this moment when our bodies are constantly stretching, just like the octopus passing through the narrow neck of the bottle, between those two states whose interconnection most of us are no longer able to interrupt. The necessary repeated deformations of what our body means, and as a result, our understanding as individual entities, make us constantly transforming mutants. The objection that all of this is actually happening only in the phenomenological level, our self-perception today, especially compared to how our "virtual" worlds are real, does not stand any more. Same as the virtual currency online MMORPG of computer words is so easily convertible to the "real world" currency, also the essence of our being is the variable. Playing with aesthetics of material installations and computer graphics, 3D models, or the spectacular illusion of postproduction of moving images is nowadays taken, also in the art, as a complex boxes, sometimes even in the work of one author. Similarly, the final form of this exhibition should follow this theme consisting of the work of three artists. Curator: Viktor Čech Olga Mikh Fedorova (*1980) realizes her artwork mainly through the work in the virtual space of 3D computer graphics. Her figurative scenes, which she presents both through videos and static prints and objects, use the contemporary aesthetics of recycled 3D models to surrealist tradition based on associations, deformations and unexpected encounters in which the human body plays its leading role and its innumerable physical and situational mutations. Her world "behind the mirror", however, often reveals obvious critical references to what we actually experience in our half-physical, half-virtual experiences. The Moscow-born artist graduated at ENSAV La Cambre, Brussels (painting studio), and currently lives and works in Brussels. Milan Mazúr (*1989) is the artist whose visual language is constantly balancing on the edge between the spectacularity of contemporary mass visuality and its questioning, including the critical social context. His videos and films enter a wider installation framework in which the author often uses the contrast of everyday subtleties and its expressive deconstruction. It constantly moves between the submissiveness of the artificial sweetener of the consumer culture, and it conceals the ubiquitous existential anxiety. The artist was born in Slovakia, graduated at the UMPRUM (Studio of Intermediate Confrontations) and currently lives and works in Prague. Iryna Zakharova (*1985) has often played with videos, objects and installations with the moment when our popular visuals are literally under the skin. Her work with materials and seemingly trivial details exploits the strength of the association of everyday objects and everyday kitsch with physical experiences. Ukraine's Kharkov-born author graduated at FAMU, Prague (photographic department).

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