Big Bang Bar
- Daily / , Galaxie
Open according to exhibitions and program of the Kulturní stanice Galaxie
How Can I Help You?
– Krištof Kintera
In his site-specific installation, How Can I Help You?, Kintera extends his sustained inquiry into the poetics of terminology, turning his gaze toward the precarious cartography of human affect, need, and psychic condition. Conceived as a monumental bar composed of more than three thousand glass vessels—each inscribed with the name of a distinct feeling, mood, desire, or impulse—the installation materializes as a spatially choreographed inventory of the human psyche, while simultaneously offering itself as a mapping of the collective emotional landscape of our present moment.
The work continues Kintera’s broader artistic engagement with language: its strata of meaning, its porousness, its power to render visible that which remains unseen yet is intensely experienced. Here, language emerges as a translational device—like art itself—through which the ineffable is given form, enabling us to examine and share the contours of our inner life: what burdens us, sustains us, or propels us forward. The installation posits art as a medium capable of articulating and projecting interior states in relation to a mutable, often destabilizing world. How Can I Help You? unfolds as an awe-inducing, illuminated psychological laboratory—a site of introspection and collective attunement. The viewer encounters a spectrum of psychic ingredients—936 in total—each drawn from the intimate lexicon of daily life: joy, sorrow, anticipation, frustration, love, exhaustion. With irony tempered by empathy, Kintera reflects the fragile oscillations and accumulated pressures of our mental existence—offering, in essence, a map of the cosmos within.
