Logistics Landscapes - invitation to the opening at VI PER

The simplest possible architecture supports and envelops the complex array of trivial logistics processes. Over the last three years, the total area of warehouses has doubled in our country. The combination of cheap labor, a central location, and the boom in online shopping has created ideal conditions for the current explosive growth of logistics parks. In relation to GDP, we already have almost twice as many as in Poland and three times more than in Hungary and Slovakia.

However, when we say that warehouses are growing, it does not mean that cities are growing with them. Often, it depends more on the distance to the borders than on the uncertain purchasing power of the nearest Czech city. For many international warehouses along highways and main routes, it doesn't matter much whether they are located near Plzeň, Prague, or Ostrava. They are often built in isolated "island" locations, without access to regular public transport and services. In such places, thousands of people from all over the republic, as well as from Romania, Ukraine, and other countries, work and often live. In the middle of nowhere. By the highway, but often without a car. The landscapes of warehouses that we see flashing by the windows of vehicles have their inhabitants.

The landscape is a medium: an artistic depiction and its real model. An object and at the same time a tool of observation. A framework, and what is bounded within that framework. A tool for naturalizing the political-economic situation of the time. The exhibition looks at the theme of logistics through the lenses of landscapes both outside and inside the warehouse areas of hundreds of thousands of square meters. How do they present themselves, what do they hide, what are they part of, and what impact do they have on their surroundings? A new layer is emerging, overwhelmingly surpassing the old world, into which it must fit and which it is changing. The exhibition "Logistics Landscapes" explores this new layer before it seamlessly integrates into our subconscious, along with the "natural" alleys of trees that line it. It describes it through six Landscapes, exhibits that push the boundaries of this classic genre, which so aptly depicts what is already a certain type of representation.