The site, which now houses the sculpture, historically housed a green village with a lake, which during the era of the First Czechoslovak Republic was drained and turned into a park, recently reconstructed by the landscape studio Land05, directed by Martina Forejtová. During construction adjustments at the time, the houses that lined the original lake were demolished. The remains of the roof gables of these buildings were still visible until the recent reconstruction in the years 2019-2020. The studio SKULL was invited to participate in the design of the perimeter wall at the southern boundary of the park
Superpower Wall, "a reminder about what is no longer there, which nevertheless leaves its imprint on place and time"
Sculptor Matěj Hájek of the S K U L L studio brings to life a sculptural-architectural monument in Prague's Husův Park in the recently revitalized Čakovice district, titled Superpower Wall by the artist himself
The result is this brick sculptural-architectural monument entitled Superpower Wall. The fundamental idea of the realization is the theme of transformation. After the conversion of the original village green, the contours of the gabled roofs remained inscribed in the perimeter walls of the park. The motif of these diagonal lines, sketches of time, is the basis for the current form of the raised brick wall, where the classical technology of the brick structure is taken to its limit. "It is a reminder of what is no longer there, which nevertheless leaves its imprint on place and time," describes the author of Superpower Wall, sculptor Matěj Hájek of studio SKULL
In contrast to the traditional building material, the wall has a nanotech transparent coating, which, due to its photocatalytic properties without chemicals and waste substances, cleans the surrounding air. The surface of the wall is impregnated with titanium dioxide, which together with UV rays is capable of liquidating up to several kilograms of harmful substances per year on an area of 1 square meter
"The invisible plays a dual role here. On the one hand there is the nanotechnology coating that depends on sunlight to function, and on the other hand there is memory, fragments of memories that exist only in our imagination. What is essential is not what we see, but precisely what escapes our vision," Hájek says
Gallery
