Czech (Republic) and Slovak (Republic)

The Silence of the Mole examines at happens to the imagination at the moment when it becomes a worn public mask and an instrument of cultural representation. At the centre of the project stands Mr M., a performer who has spent his life embodying a fictional mole originally addressed to children. The character is grounded in gestures of care, creative labour and non-verbal empathy. Mr M. inhabits a condition in which voice and body no longer seem to belong to him. In dialogue with the installation, the film traces the process through which imagination’s poetic language is transformed into an agent of soft power.

Mr M. emerges as a metaphor for imagination itself, whose meanings are continually negotiated. Within the contemporary social context, the project does not treat silence as abstraction, but as a space where voice, representation and imagination are shaped and constrained.

The exhibition unfolds as an environment of architecture, objects and film, developed through an ongoing collaborative process. Jakub Jansa’s film was created in direct dialogue with the sculptural installation by Selmeci Kocka Jusko. The interplay between sculpture, architecture and film generates a unified dramaturgical framework in which the exhibition itself becomes the medium.