The project originated in a site-specific installation created in 2023 for Ankali, a community-oriented music club in Prague. There, the artists combined photographs printed on various materials with found natural elements and remnants of urban life, exploring the relationships between place, materiality, and image. This exploration now continues at The House, where they present the outcomes of new material and technological processes while further expanding their multimedia language.

The resulting environment unfolds as a spatial composition in which photographs and drawings intertwine with sculptural installations accompanied by an ambient sonic layer. The gallery becomes a site for rest, refuge, meditation, and contemplation — a space attuned to processes of transformation, both in the world around us and within ourselves.

In nature, mimicry is not merely a passive merging with the surrounding environment. Rather, it emerges from a continual process of transformation and adaptation — a search for new forms capable of sustaining life within shifting conditions. As human beings, we similarly navigate an ever-changing landscape of social roles, expectations, and identities that continuously shape and demand our adaptation. Each such situation calls for a form of “shapeshifting”: the capacity to transform one’s behaviour, perception, or sense of self in response to new realities.

Yet adaptation is never entirely automatic. Transformation always contains an element of creativity and conscious agency. We do not adapt simply by imitating our surroundings, but by actively inventing new modes of existence. The artists’ engagement with nature therefore extends beyond observation of natural forms and processes. Nature becomes a site of connection to deeper sources of intuition, transformation, and creativity from which we may draw. It is precisely this process of attunement to natural principles — and the possibilities for imagination and inner flexibility that such attunement may open — that the exhibition Layers, Landscapes, Shapeshifters invites viewers to experience.