WORK / EXHIBITION / WORK IN COLLECTIONS
Slap
2007, high-definition video, loop
In collections of FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Collection Josée et Marc Gensollen and Collection Antoine de Galbert
In Slap, Adam Vačkář stages a ritual of endurance and exposure. An anonymous hand enters the frame and strikes his face, again and again, each blow releasing a fragile cloud of white powder that hovers momentarily before dissolving into air. The gesture repeats without resistance, an endless loop in which repetition itself becomes the medium. Every slap is the same yet never identical, producing a rhythm of violence and fragility. The cloud of dust lingers as a trace of impact, a fleeting presence that marks the collision between body and world, between the artist and the raw matter of reality. Here, creation is inseparable from confrontation; pain becomes a catalyst for visibility. Vačkář positions himself in the space of vulnerability and complicity, embodying the darker currents of human impulse while refusing catharsis. Slap belongs to his cycle of “ephemeral works,” where white powder functions as a symbol of impermanence, a brief and luminous instant carved out of the endless continuity of time.