1982-83/2023, 6:44 min.

A set of works dates back to 1972 as a private performative activity, continued in 1982 and 83 in the Mažarná caves of Malá Fatra in Slovakia, the cavities of the Zebín quarry in Bohemian Paradise or the Pekárna cave in the Moravian Karst. The final audiovisual work was composed from time-lapse photography, analog 8mm film, and analogue and digital video (2023). In his carefully curated physical and digital personal archive, Šejn updates some of his older long-term projects with new available tools, as it is the case of the video presentation of this particular work.

Milos Šejn (1947) works in the fields of visual art, performance and inquiry of perception, organizes workshops as Bohemiae Rosa. Šejn’s artistic vision was formed when when he made many trips into the wilderness in his young age. From the beginning of the 1960s he took pictures, drew, collected and described his observations of nature during these wanderings. Sejn’s present-day interest is in the relationship of nature and art as intrinsic needs of the mind, and focuses on immediate creative possibilities, based upon relations between historical humanized landscapes and intact nature. He consciously works in the field of expressive language among text, visual stroke, body movement, voice, and expansion into space.