In the summer of 2005, my parents bought a house in a village in North Bohemia, Czechia. Since then, I’ve spent many holidays there. It has become a second home. It is a place I cherish, but never fully understood. After 20 years, I return without seeing the village only as a holiday destination, but as a community where life goes on, regardless of my presence or absence. In search of my connection to this place, I rediscover the landscape and get to know the local residents in a way I never did as an outsider.
After Kytice explores the rhythms of the Czech countryside, where seasonal rituals and traces of the past live on in both nature and people. Inspired by Karel Jaromír Erben’s poetry collection Kytice (1853), the project connects folklore, personal memories, and present-day observations, bouncing between myth and reality.

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