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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.
The following people collaborated on the project: Zuzana Jirsová, Agáta Tichá, Alice Mahďáková, Mikuláš Fatka, Maya Kintera, Ela Didunyková and Liliana Cyrankowski. Thanks to Kino Kavalírka, Kavárna Husovka and everyone else who helped with the collection of bottles.
Thanks for the cooperation and installation: Matej Al-Ali, Augustin Soukup, Kamil Sghaier, Jáchym Šimek
