NUSLE IS A PLACE.
BENEATH THE SURFACE OF EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE, STRANGE CREATURES LIVE THEIR BIZARRE STORIES.
IN ASPHALT DRIVEWAY CRACKS, IN THE ECHO OF RAILWAYS RUMBLE, IN THE SHADOWS OF CHIMNEYS,
AND TELEGRAPH WIRES.
ALONG THE STREAM OF BOTlC, STORIES FROM THE SITE WITH THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATION OF BUTCHERS
CREATE A PATTERN, WHICH REVEALS THE WORLD BEHIND THE WORLD.
IN THIS WORLD, THE GIANT TAKES BATH IN A PUDDLE BETWEEN RAILWAY EMBANKMENTS
ON SLEEPY SUNDAY AFTERNOON.
Hza Bažant's book Nusle was published by Hura Collective in year 2015.
The narrative concept of this book is based on individual sheets in which different stories take place simultaneously. It begun as a series of graphic prints Nusle created since 2009 and inspired by the realities of this Prague district. The graphics show surreal scenes with many stories that are seemingly unconnected but in fact deeply interrelated. They refer to dreams and tales that we invent basing ourselves on fragments of events that we saw in passing. Graphic sheets paraphrase the life in a city where thousands of events surround us. We catch only tiny fragments of them. Nevertheless, they make together a magnificent whole - the city. Individual images are rich scenes full of symbols, which are taking place in the backdrop of the urban periphery, which represents the peripheral areas of our mind. It conjures up the story of four identical mysterious travelers. We meet Mirek, who finally dares to leave the safety of four walls of his room. There is a yellow giant who lives on the abandoned railway embankment slopes, dark butchers, and other characters whose characters are rather intuited.
All stories are told without words, by associations, symbols, and common features. This method is chosen with the intention to provide the reader with the greatest possible freedom of interpretation. The reader is author’s partner; he may create his network of relationships between individual characters of the story. Thus, it is possible to return to the book and read a different story each time. Discovery of a new layer of meanings becomes an adventure similar to the exploration of the abandoned corners in an unfamiliar city, where discarded artifactsmay create a mosaic of life stories of those who left them behind. It does not matter whether the story happened or could happen; its formation is more about us than about protagonists of the story. As literature uses words to form images, in this case we are using images to build a story. The concept of the Nusle project is based on a free play of imagination stimulated by rich visual perceptions.
Hza Bažant - N U S L E
The concept of graphic cycle Nusle is creating the large scale prints, made by combination of sprayed stencils and the screen print. This method creating from each print special artefact with unique specific color combination.
Each picture consists surreal images of scenes depends on a number of seemingly unrelated stories, but in fact deeply intertwined. Refer to the dreams, the stories that I am assuming from a fragment of the events that we briefly passes. Individual images are rich scenes full of symbols, taking place in the backdrop of the urban periphery, which represents the peripheral areas of the mind. Interwoven with the story of four identical mysterious travelers, Mirek, who finally dares to come out from the safety of the four walls of my room, yellow giant who lives on the slopes of abandoned cars on the track, dark butchers and other characters, the which identity are rather suspected.
Each picture consists surreal images of scenes depends on a number of seemingly unrelated stories, but in fact deeply intertwined. Refer to the dreams, the stories that I am assuming from a fragment of the events that we briefly passes. Individual images are rich scenes full of symbols, taking place in the backdrop of the urban periphery, which represents the peripheral areas of the mind. Interwoven with the story of four identical mysterious travelers, Mirek, who finally dares to come out from the safety of the four walls of my room, yellow giant who lives on the slopes of abandoned cars on the track, dark butchers and other characters, the which identity are rather suspected.
