Mančuška

Jan Mančuška

Ján Mančuška’s recent works have been strongly personal. Not in the sense of some sort of confession, but in the way he interacts with the public— he addresses his public as individuals, as discrete entities. Interestingly, it would be hard to associate his works with any adjective other than “individual.” They are not political, feminist, anti-colonialist or documentary in any immediate way; nor are they related to any specific social-scientific issue. They refer to the grounding of the individual in the universal sense. They do not analyze what contexts this individual is anchored in, but rather presuppose some stratum anchored in the everyday life of a particular person—an individual, who is universal. Human perception and memory are selective, and what is characteristic of such impressions and memories is the very fact that people often notice things that are beside, behind, or before the “events” that are actually at issue— those that someone is inquiring about, or are under discussion.