Metalové Micettky
@metalovemicettky
Kisses & Crashes| 24.07-02.08.2026
Vernissage 24.07.2026, 18:00-20:00
“We sought to find connections and points of comparison with how local people relate to cars.”
Starting from the personal relationship with automobiles, shaped by two cultural backgrounds from entirely different countries (Italy, Slovakia), Metalové Micettky presents "Kisses&Crashes".
It is a journey that begins from their own intimacy, that gradually merges with the inner worlds of individuals, who own different stories. As well as experience automobiles in completely different ways. When they look from such an entangled perspective: the car transcends its merely utilitarian function, to become an almost companion-like presence. Evoking, by analogy, the role once played by the horse for humans. It actively embeds itself within the social and urban fabric, at times becoming an agent capable of influencing, even decisively, the life trajectories of a person.
“Kisses&Crashes” also speaks of love: toxic love, spotted in an intense love relationship experienced by cars only, that which a human being cannot.
For the time, the Stroboskop becomes fully covered in an emergency thermal blanket that holds a bond with the theme of crashes, along with the context of the garage space, which serves as a place of shelter. Inside the space, the duo presents four videopoems on four scissor jacks. The poem is composed from internal and external work, from one side its based on the interviews Tereza conducted with a guy who is into illegal races.
The material became a direct inspiration for Paco, who wrote the poem to transmit his emotions and experiences in a romanticistic way and through the experience of the car crashing, presented in the visual part of the work. The audio part of the work is produced by Paco, with synths and sounds of cars: alarm, seat belt, car doors opening and closing etc. All of these elements melted into an ethereal and contemplative audio–visuals.
"Kisses&Crashes" – originates from artists' individual practices and common experience of studying in Warsaw at the end of 2025.
Metalové Micettky is an artist duo founded in 2026 and based in Stupava and Rome, formed through the collaboration between Tereza Darášová (2002, Stupava, Slovakia) and Paco Sangrado (1998, Monza, Italy). Their practice emerges from a shared fascination with automobiles, their aesthetics, and their social role. Working across disciplines, they explore the theme of the car through text, video, textiles, sound, and installation.
