Metropolia

Jakub Nepraš works with scientific and philosophical knowledge as well as with his own experiences, feelings and intuition. It studies the current trends and behavior of our super-organism in relation to the individual's position within the whole and monitors the natural principles that control and influence these relationships. Jakub reflects the fundamental changes in society and technology and the resulting alienation in relation to people and nature. In his work, he seeks to rediscover the original and cleaner way of life, returning natural forms to contemporary society and technology.

Metropolia

The city floats authoritatively over people's heads. An unusual look at a colossus in which most of us work daily. The icon of the current city, in a regular rhythm, packs new things at every moment. Rotating frequencies contain the visual and symbolic rhythms of contemporary cities. Mostly from Shanghai and Prague. The abstract story of the universal city is graded in several stages and sinks into the dark again. As if the energy charge had left the space and returned to another hypnotic cycle after a while.

The embossed projection surface consists of circular housing from real products originally made in China. It sometimes works plastically only as an enlightened physical box or gives space to the projected image.

The aim is to encourage people to stand up to the city as a whole and, on the other hand, to use its potential (dual) energy, which, unfortunately, manifests itself negatively, for example, on the human psyche. The goal is to find a positive attitude towards the city as an inevitable mechanism of contemporary society.