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The exhibition addressed the phenomenon of the body and corporeality, but also touched on a number of other topics directly related to corporeality, such as identity, sexuality, sensuality, intimacy and crossing the boundaries of private and public. The body and corporeality are among the most timeless themes and among the most important sources of inspiration in art since time immemorial. However, the body as a means of expression in a direct, unapproachable form, not in the sense of a subject or a mere carrier of symbolic content, began to assert itself in Czech art only after the mid-20th century. If we ignore the pioneering surrealist "rampages" of Václav Zykmund and the Ra group from the mid-1940s, which did not find an adequate successor in the art of the time, we are dealing primarily with the body art actions and performances of the 1970s and 1980s (P. Štembera, J. Mlčoch, K. Miler, V. Havlík, T. Ruller, V. Ambroz, M. Titlová Ylovsky, etc.). As one of the dominant themes of visual art, the theme of the body and physicality is then asserted in the artistic expressions of the 1990s, which represent the core from which the Suck the Sack exhibition was based. The exhibition presented works by Veronika Bromová, Milena Dopitová, Maud Kotasová, Petr Lysáček, Jan Matýsek, Karel Nepraš, Dita Pepe, Václav Stratil and Margita Titlová Ylovsky.
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