Jan Stolín’s exhibition Configurations consists of a set of squared shapes of various sizes arranged on a raised platform. Together, they form a simple, minimalist spatial composition. The installation possesses autonomous artistic qualities but also deals with a specific theme: the arrangement and proportions of the individual elements are meant to evoke gallery display props, something that Stolín thematises in its own right while also conceiving his installation as a kind of exhibition of ‘absent sculptures’.

This absence of actual exhibits forms the basis for an interactive audio installation and a playful experiment that gallery visitors can engage in. 

As visitors walk between the pedestals, they can explore the flowing of air as a kind of residual trace left by the absent works while imagining the presence of these works through audio analogies.

The exhibition Configurations thus creates a process by which the installation’s basic components – visual and aural, sensory/emotional and metaphorical/conceptual – are continually triggered and placed in a contextual relationship to each other.