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The exhibition deals with the question of visible and invisible materiality in visual culture and art. Many aspects of visual perception await our own interpretation and concretization, without which they would retain the nature of an indifferent, formless phenomenon, a kind of sensual and plastic matter. The initial part of the exhibition includes monotypes of a depersonalized, abstracted city and forest, whose features merge into a common sign of enclosure and indeterminacy on the palette of individual emotions. In the next part of the exhibition, the artist presents his characteristic "mud painting" loosely inspired by Impressionism, but already informed by the further direction of Modernism. In a series of paintings devoted to views from his studio and the landscape around Milešovka, he reflects on a darkly romanticized everyday life that is simple, yet potentially disturbing. Václav Hájek is an art historian and theorist of visual culture. He teaches at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University and at the Department of Scenography of the DAMU. He deals with the issue of stereotypes in visual media and human vision. He also works as a visual artist, poet, organizer of exhibitions and conferences.