The new installation Trial by Fire, created by Dagmar Šubrtová for the specific space of the Emil Filly Gallery, reflects the themes that the author has been working on for a long time through various media (installation, sculpture, photography, as well as curatorial projects). He works with the themes of the transformation of matter, the action of forces in the material plane, the transformation of the landscape after the restructuring of heavy industry, in this context he mainly points to the ability to regenerate abandoned dumps and heaps after coal mining. She is interested in the post-industrial character of the landscape of Kladenska, where she now lives, and relates her personal experience to conditions in northern Bohemia, especially to the surroundings of her native Duchcov.

The installation Trial by Fire in this case does not refer only to the process of hidden reality, to the complex path of knowledge and change. Matters are transformed in fire - they melt, dissolve, burn out, are bent, resolidify or solidify. Not only sudden strong heat or gradual burning occurs, but also new sediments, dust, ashes and other chemical reactions create secondary minerals. These processes, typical of nature, give rise to something new on the foundations of old layers.