Using the example of a tiny and seemingly unusable plot of land in a developer-exposed area behind Bratislava Castle, Jana Šturdíková explores a range of layers concerning housing issues, building regulations, local government procedures, and the relationship to public greenery and urban trees. Jana Šturdíková's exhibition visually focuses primarily on trees, but through them, she consistently references the background of their removal: how a strip of public greenery can suddenly become a building plot, how one can lose access to their own home, or how it is possible to navigate all regulations to reach an outcome that these very measures were originally meant to prevent. The laborious documentation of all the trees in a single vanished grove and other visualisations speak in the subtext about the struggle of local residents against a project that bypasses several valid regulations, thousands of written pages, and undoubtedly an equal amount of wasted time for everyone involved.
— Tomáš Pospěch
— Tomáš Pospěch
The series consists of more than 100 photographs, as well as photographic and wooden objects.
