front line

exhibition design
První linie / Front Line
DOX Centre for Contemporary Art / Prague
exhibition photo ——— Jan Slavík / DOX
year ——— 2O14

The FRONT LINE exhibition commemorates the 100-years anniversary of the beginning of World War I. In the DOX Centre’s main exhibition space, in a monumental site-specific installation by Slovak artists Bohuš and Monika Kubinský, two battle lines will confront each other: a trench wall evoking Verdun’s defensive system from World War I, and a line composed of fragments from authentic anti-aircraft bunkers (“Kugelbunkers”) from World War II, which was its direct consequence. An imaginary abandoned and quiet battlefield, in which these “front lines” of the two largest military conflicts in the history of humanity meet, becomes a sort of memento of the past century of wars and their absurdity. /DOX/