Dušan Šimánek

"Tomáš Ruller and Ivan Kafka invented an event, which was called In between layers (Mezi vrstvami) and it located in a valley near Radotín. It was there - because there are layers of Barrandien, but then of course 'between layers' meant between us artists. But the exhibition was fictional. Everybody got an invitation, only six of us knew that it was fictional - and it was always a reaction to these secret exhibitions that took place. Everybody went there, there was a bunch of policemen and secret police, and we all walked around looking for the exhibition. The funny part was how the Secret police and the cameramen would then come up to us and ask us if we knew where it might be. They were really confused. At the beginning of the valley, they asked us to prove our identity. So in the end some people thought that it was actually the police who made it up and that it was actually an action by them to check on us. However, it was again one of the amazing experiences because there were sixty of us or maybe a hundred people walking through there. Then a few of us ended up in a pub, some of us ended up somewhere else. Well, I have to say it was amazing that it was kept secret until the nineties. Me and Bohdan, we were taking pictures during this gathering, then we would sit down and pick a picture so that nobody would know who took it. And a card was printed out and sent to everybody with a thank you note for the participation at the exhibition."

"I think it's important to emphasize that. I feel that a lot of people are missing that today. That they don't understand that if the freedom is given to you artificially and if you don't have it in you, it is meaningless. Because such person has no idea how to use it. Because then such person might think that he is free to do anything. That he can, for example, kill someone because that´s freedom. But the inner and ethical freedom - that's something completely different, and it just gives you a chance to survive a lot of things."