Martin Hrvol

In my work I work with the theme of home, in which the relationships between the inner and the outer, or public and private space, are connected. Currently I am also working more with the notion of habitat, or the absence of home or habitat.
The basic element that I find interesting in my work is space and possibility of answering the question of our occupation. We have colonized everything for so long that we are not even able to imagine a living space for others or other things, they don´t fit into our realities and also into our imaginations either. My question is, am I able, at least for a minimal amount of time, to create in someone the image, the feeling, the state of being that space is open to everything and everyone?
The typical materials of my work are stone, wood, concrete, natural materials, but also fragments of living nature, text or sound.
My work combines matter, material and space, through which I try to interpret the stories of nature in crisis, or people in crisis. I am interested in stories that are made from oral histories, or from scientific research about nature, and this is reflected in my work Fox, for example. So, my aim is to portray a shared crisis in which both human and natural entities find themselves, and through this crisis they survive together. Stories showing a certain situation in which man tries to get out of the crisis by imitating nature, but also by caring and growing plants or mushrooms on unnatural material. It is a search for the relationship between society and nature, a precarious situation in the present and the distant future.
I use matter, material and space as a language in my work. Through matter I convey the properties and through material the complexity of systems, because even the most invisible material has many uses in combination with space, like language in speech.
In my works I start from different structures and interconnections of different materials in space, in which new relationships are created. Relationships in which I criticize the aestheticization of the ecological crisis or the simplification of the life situations of people in crisis, or marginalized groups. Based on this critique, I try to show in objects and installations the possibility of resilience, the resilience of nature and people. And this is done by interpreting through matter and material, by linking different structures - for example in situations where non-organic material in nature becomes a habitat for…