We’re happy to announce Radek Brousil’s solo exhibition Date with a Plant at the Josef Sudek Studio, Prague, curated by Jan Gajdusek.
Radek Brousil’s project “Date with a Plant” further explores the artist’s sustained inquiry into chronopolitics—the ways in which time is structured and regulated—and translates it into a
photographic study of a single living organism. Building on earlier iterations at his institutional exhibition at the Prague City Gallery Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace and recent
exhibitions at the Krupa Gallery in London and Wrocław, Brousil turns his attention to a black surfinia flower: a plant whose velvety, light-absorbing pigmentation creates the illusion of
pure opacity. Here, darkness is not a mere backdrop, but an active agent: a conceptual material used to unsettle the inherited regimes of visibility. It becomes a visual field that
refuses transparency and extractive clarity so often demanded by photography as a medium.
The project unfolds through a time-lapse sequence captured for over 25 hours, deliberately exceeding the supposedly universal 24-hour timeframe governing contemporary life. This
conscious deviation functions as a quiet gesture of refusal. By stretching the day, Brousil demonstrates how both time and image can become sites of negotiation—technical
processes that are never neutral and always embedded within the politics of human (and nonhuman) rhythms. The pre-existing structures dictated by light, or lack of thereof, are
exposed in black-and-white photographs. As such, they extend the commentary not only to the critique of contemporary systems ruling the present, but also the nature of the medium
itself. Photography, the product of light, air, moisture, and chemical compounds, relies on each of its elements to exist. In this sense, the light becomes a subject standing in for
passage of time, inviting the viewer to consider how darkness constructs alternative temporalities.
6 February — 22 March 2026