Between the silence of concentration and the tension of the next move, Acta rationis emerges – an exhibition by Jan Hladil and HRTL taking place at (A)VOID Gallery as part of the 13th edition of the Spectaculare Festival. From March 18 to April 1, the gallery transforms into a field where rational structures of thought flow into objects, sound and image, and where a chess game ceases to be a game and becomes a sensory experience. Spatial works by Jan Hladil and musical compositions by HRTL enter into mutual resonance, creating a living archive of decisions, memory and mistakes – legible traces of human thinking in motion.

The opening will take place on March 17 from 6:30 PM.

Acta rationis is an exhibition project that translates the record of a chess game – a sequence of rational decisions, moves and counter-moves – into physical, sonic and visual form. Chess does not appear here as a game, but as a structured language of reason: a system of rules, tension and memory from which objects, music and projection emerge.

The chess objects and visual layer are created by Jan Hladil through the transformation of specific games into spatial forms. Each object becomes a material record of a thinking process – a trace of strategy, rhythm and error. HRTL’s musical composition works with the same data and principles: moves, repetition, gradation and silence, forming a parallel acoustic structure corresponding to the visual system.

The projection connects both layers and expands them over time – object, sound and image resonate together. The exhibition thus becomes a symbiosis of reason and sensory perception, an archive of mental processes and their living interpretation. Acta rationis – acts of reason – are not presented as an abstract ideal, but as concrete, recordable and re-readable traces of human thought in motion.

The exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Spectaculare Festival, The Chemistry Gallery and (A)VOID Gallery.