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In the search for time and its legibility, the book as a physical entity is an important tool and component of Elke Burkert's working method. Collecting and compiling, linking and connecting, form the basis of her approach. She plays with the linear conception of time, which is both supported and contradicted by the book.

The book has a beginning and an end, but can also be understood cyclically, or rather, as multiplicity. Heidi Hornáčková extends this understanding of time to the bodies of visitors through her food performances. During the exhibition, the food items she selects undergo a process of ripening and preservation. What begins at the opening culminates in the collective sharing and tasting of the food during the closing event.

The pavilion transforms into a laboratory of materiality, where books, much like food, appear as living matter. Reading becomes tactile and temporal; knowledge shifts, disperses, and transforms. The book only comes into being through interaction: page sequences dissolve, are recreated, and generate altered traces of time. Another book disintegrates—ink stains the water, leaving behind a withering book in the aquarium.

• Opening: January 8, 2026, 6–9 pm | Introduction 7 pm
  
• Opening hours: January 9–18, 2026, Thu–Sun 3–7 pm
  
• Performances: January 11 and 18, 5 pm