Quarries, caves, mineshafts, holes, cavities, and cracks in the surface reveal absence, the presence of something else. Absence is dependent on the presence of the environment that shapes it. When we see a quarry, we don’t necessarily focus on the fact that something is not there, even though it is obvious. A quarry is a cut landscape, an exposed interior, an abyss. It is a matrix of the void.

In his work, Ondřej Klavík depicts the de-materialization of physical volume: mining, digging, removal, relocation. For him, physical substance is more than matter; it can be an idea, information which suddenly finds itself set aside in order to reveal something that is subliminal, beneath the surface. Ideas meet mythology, the re/construction of vanished places, objects, cultures. We find ourselves somewhere between the legible and the abstract, the real and the fictional. The meaning eludes us and disappears; it must be unpuzzled, deciphered. Every time we look, the image changes, the scale disappears and another is revealed. Beyond the original motif, something completely different, something upside-down emerges that eludes identification.