At traditional fairs, kitsch, fantasy, commerce and childhood memories come together without restraint. Saturated colours, illuminated signs, inflatable figures, painted backdrops and reflections in glass create a kind of visual noise in which reality merges with illusion.

For a brief time, the fair creates a world of its own – vivid, noisy and ever-changing, built from rides, images, lights and the promise of entertainment. Technologies, attractions and forms of amusement may change, yet the essential nature of the fair has remained remarkably similar across generations: a temporary world removed from everyday life, shaped by spectacle, anticipation and shared experience.

The series Colour noise was photographed at fairs across the Czech Republic between 2024 and 2026. The photographs neither judge nor ironise this environment. Instead, they capture its energy, its many layers and the peculiar visual order that emerges from apparent chaos. People become part of the scenery, blending into advertisements, figures and reflections, or, conversely, suddenly standing out among them for a fleeting moment.

The photographs embrace an abundance of visual stimuli while at the same time searching for subtle relationships, gestures and chance connections. What at first appears to be a jumble of colours and forms gradually comes together into images poised somewhere between observed reality and an imaginary world.