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Kairos



2025-now / Kairos is an interactive still life, a contemporary vanitas. I invite the viewer to step into the photograph and draw time with their hand on the screen. Built from ~200 timelapse frames running as touch interactive app.

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Motto: Fluid moments pulse beneath your touch. You are water, you are outside of time, and yet you are time itself. Let’s uncover the poetry of existence in the ordinary suburban places where these images originate. New ways of perception, sensitivity, and coexistence emerge. The artificial and the living intertwine. Transience and life are two sides of the same coin.

Kairos is the moment when attention opens something. On the touchscreen, that moment has a shape – a blob that expands under the viewer's hand, revealing layers of time inside the photograph. The viewer disrupts Chronos (clock time, linear recording) and uncovers different layers of Kairos (the moment of active human intervention and attention).

The core theme of the project is water as an all-permeating force and a time-shaping medium. Lukáš Opekar collects the objects he photographs in ordinary places on the outskirts of the city – concrete, puddles, weeds. He is interested in how to draw an uncommon experience from this ordinariness, and in opening new ways of perception, sensitivity and coexistence.

His perception of time and matter has been shaped by Andreas Weber's idea of erotic ecology, where decay feeds growth and death is part of the dance, not its end. His time-lapses are records of matter in transformation, and the touchscreen is an invitation to enter this cycle through one's own action, at one's own pace.

Kairos only fully exists under a human hand. Left alone, the image drifts slowly and aimlessly – it is the hand that gives time a direction. Every visitor draws a different path through the same few hundred frames, and no two passages can be repeated.

In a time saturated with information and speed, Opekar shifts attention towards empathy, experience and care. Technology here is not nature's opponent but a mediator of perception, bringing us closer to the non-human rhythms of the world.






Technical info


  • One or more touchscreens, size and number adapted to the venue – a single screen, or a room of several, each showing a different piece.
  • One computer per screen, running independently. No server, no network, no internet connection.
  • No installation. A self-contained application that opens straight into the artwork – no interface, no menus. It needs only a web browser.
  • Runs unattended all day; the only handling is switching the machines on and off.









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