Diana Paulová: Tu nateraz / Here for Now  ^SK

For many, Pohoda is a carefree oasis. A town that comes to life just once a year, where we wander and explore a rich tapestry of sounds, colours, and flavours. Our only real concern is how to anchor our temporary home to the sun-baked ground. The site-specific work Here for Now depicts a tent peg, which becomes both a symbol of summer relaxation and an invitation to reflect on the idea of home – the place we’ve chosen, for now, to stay.

Diana Paulová is the winner of last year’s Pohoda Visual Art Contest. Her work Here for Now will once again feature on the Visual stage, Pohoda’s platform for contemporary art.



“The work focuses on the tent peg, which the artist has magnified to monumental proportions. The peg becomes a humorous yet surprisingly moving tribute to a seemingly insignificant object, without which the festival simply couldn’t function. It’s a universal item that costs just a few cents, yet it’s invaluable when it comes to building a temporary home. Tent pegs are inherently nomadic – people borrow them, and through this, a unique form of solidarity and coexistence emerges within the temporary festival home. The reference to home, nomadism, temporary refuge, and the chosen place to settle is powerfully present in this work. It resonates strongly in today’s social context related to migration, as well as in our post-election discourse about where to move, whether to leave or stay, and where to anchor ourselves, even if only temporarily. Diana Paulová’s piece is a brilliant response to our current lived experience and, thanks to its site and context-specific nature, it has the potential to become a true monument of Pohoda Festival,” adds visual artist and last year’s Visual Art Contest judge, Lenka Kuricová.

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