10/06/2026
Ambiguity is an omnipresent element in Dominik Adamec’ sculptures, installations, and essays.
The artist adopts this approach in response to the limiting nature of the social and scientific categories used to describe the world. Categories such as man and nature, or plants and animals, are necessary but overly simplistic. The apparent clarity with which these distinctions are understood dissolves when confronted with other languages and cultural contexts. Moreover, such categories do not always align with what is felt or observed. For example, plants were once denied the ability to feel, and animals the capacity for empathy; today, the opposite is often asserted.
As a result, his work deliberately creates space for anomalies and incongruities that evade classification or exist between established categories. For him, engaging with anomalies and forming new hybrids functions as a tool for self-reflection, challenging learned patterns of perception.
To articulate this worldview, he has developed a method of working with content and diverse narratives, referred to as the Chimeric Method. This concept draws on both the biological phenomenon of chimerism and the historical motif of the Chimera.
The medium of ceramics enables him to merge previously developed ideas into a new, cohesive whole. He describes this as a magmatic conglomerate, symbolically referencing the process of kiln firing, during which elements melt and fuse into a unified form—a new natural-artificial hybrid.
