Date
HYB4 Galerie: Martin Zetová: We Are All the Same Age
Exhibition
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November 2026
We Are All the Same Age expands this perspective from the human story to the living and the non-living alike. It turns towards fundamental questions: where do we come from, and where are we going? The artist considers the possibility that if universe originated in a single moment, then everything that emerged from it shares the same point of origin. Across the vast scale of time, this common memory continues. The exhibition invites us to imagine that the living and the non-living may, in this sense, share the same age.
Zetová transforms these reflections into a spatial painting created specifically for HYB4 Galerie. An intricate system of organic genealogies unfolds across the space, different from a traditional human family tree. A few centimetres of lines may stand for millions of years on an imagined map of existence: from a source we can contemplate but cannot describe with certainty, towards a line of matter and energy whose end remains beyond our sight.
The installation is accompanied by the artist’s reflections, drawings, and sculptural reliefs made from natural materials, recalling both his sculptural practice and his economy of form while opening onto multiple layers of meaning. A sound component and a visual record of a living being introduce, for me as a curator, the fragility and transience of physical life, while the rest of the installation opens onto dimensions of time and existence that extend far beyond our own experience.
Curator: Michal Štochl
The exhibition is taking place from 7. 11. 2026 to 19. 12. 2026. C.0 HYB4 Galerie is open from Monday to Saturday 10a.m.-8p.m.
Martin Zetová (1959) is a Czech sculptor, performer and multimedia artist. In his work We Are All the Same Age, he reflects on life as an unbroken thread of time connecting all its present forms. From the perspective of the beginning of life, individual differences dissolve – we are all the endpoints of the same flow of time.
Media partner: ArtMap, Kudyznudy.cz
