Aftermath
The day mathematics stopped working or how Euclidean geometry works in other universes.
In the colonial era, wars lasted for years because of nutmeg. In prisons, crushed tea was brewed from a broth of crushed Myristica fragrans seeds which, thanks to its myristicin and elemicin, has psychoactive effects that can cause coma and eventually death if overdosed. In Antonín Jirát’s installation the artist uses endosperm as a building material, as a link in the construction of an object resembling a kind of crystalline structure suffering from linear and point defects still sticking together and growing metabolically despite this imperfection. A children’s kit with narcotic effects. Creativity causes joy that can have lasting consequences.
r.b.