Zora’s Twilight

Galleri CC, Båstadsgatan 4, Malmö, Sweden
25. 4 - 25. 5. 2025

Artists: Veronika Čechmánková (CZ), Darja Lukjanenko (UA), Laze Tripkov (MK) a Sofie Tobiášová (CZ)

Curators: Viktor Čech a Lenka Sýkorová (CZ)

The international exhibition Zora’s Twilight was produced with Galleri CC with collaboration Altán Klamovka Gallery, and supported by Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem a Malmö Stad and the Kulturrådet.

The moment of dusk arrives, our daily worries recede with the sun of day and are replaced by the dim twilight of our dreams and desires. Zora of twilight, or also in Czech Večernice, was in Old Slavic mythology the personification of twilight, the departure of the sun beyond the horizon. But perhaps she was also the one who, with her merciful darkness, covered the evils and cruelties of the world and established a reign of intimate darkness and rest.

The symbolic perception of the world around us, as was customary with our ancestors, can be as much the consolation of our souls today as its damnation. It does not matter whether we claim to be daughters or sons of light or darkness, but rather how we can find our way to the right signifier in the signified.

As in the work of the artists in this exhibition, human experience has become primarily a space between us, in which loneliness and the understanding of darkness as loss and negation are replaced by sharing and a sense of unity.