I see

It was a video sketch of a double reflection in the window of a moving train and a randomly recorded conversation between fellow passengers that started off Adam Hejduk's work with film docu-fiction and glass panels as projection surfaces.

In the projection installation, I see by Adam Hejduk, we observe and revise the othered cinema in gallery space conditions along with the author. In a reference to Rare Window by Alfred Hitchcock, we follow fragmented conversations recorded without the knowledge of the actors taking place in the open windows of Brno’s courtyards. We try to reconstruct the main plot of them, but they keep us in suspense. The documentary rawness and immediacy of seemingly banal messages make us shiver. Beneath the surface, we can read symptoms of problematic relationships and phenomena: social and financial hardship (perhaps even motivating theft), stalking on social networks or gender-based violence. Leitmotiv of the work speaks about the fragile line between private and political. The confession of the voyeur character in Adam Hejduk's video installation may symbolically suggest the necessity of taking a stand and not only remaining in the pretended role of a silent witness who is not concerned with social inequalities and other people's violence.