It is easy to forget about the “whole darned world” when you are sheltered from the wind by the back of a chaise longue, a symbol of stability and security. Excessive possessions need to be guarded. Who cares if the measure of the arms produced is death? We require higher security and SOFA provides that.
In his works, Jan Jakub Kotík takes side with artists across all disciplines who refuse to put up with the hypocrisy administered by the apostles of destruction. The object Houses of the Holy from 2005, created after his return from the USA, comments from a remote position the hysterical turmoil, declarations of virtue dishonoured by deeds.