Jan Šrámek

The title of the project "Between the World and Me" refers to a literary work of American author Ta-Nehisi Coates. The contents of the project refers to the current Dizzcocks album "Elegy of Unsung Heroes", which won Vinyla award for the best Czech album of the year 2015. The topic of the exhibition refers to the content of the album, which affects various social and political problems. In the case of the project Between the World and Me shown through the collapse of the affected US city Detroit.

A film inspired by the life and work of the conceptual German artist Joseph Beyus, film directorAndrei Tarkovski, as well as the historical and political situation in Ukraine and the Balticcountries.

Jan Šrámek is a constructor of vector nostalgias with the sense for a style unity boardering with unification. This time he has even managed to tame the rain that, in regular grid, sprinkles the damaged and desertedremains of an urban infrastructure. The amount of ruined military hard-ware confirms it is a standard post-apocalyptic scenario, for which the people themselves are to blame.It is not clear who will change places with them (us). Veronika Vlkova “Little Girl“ is the only living person we see in our wanderings through the deserted city, she does have to bet he the seed of a new civilization, not a remainder of the…ours. Maybe she is only one the only one, the one and only

Official music video for Pjoni - Slovak mucisian based in London.