In 1980, Zdeněk Beran, together with Jiří Sozanský, Oldřich Kulhánek, Ivan Bukovský, Lubomír Janečka, etc., created a complex environment in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. All the participating artists lived and worked for three months in a place where anxiety and distress accompanied them throughout the whole time.Jiří Sozanský, Pevnost, Prague 1991, p.3 The Beran installation included monstrous bloated packages suspended from a structure in the space, resembling human torsos and suitcases placed in the area of the solitary confinement. The inside of the suitcases, revealed by their partial destruction, contained the remains of clothing, shoes, books, newspapers and other traces of human existence. The hanging objects remained in Terezín and were later destroyed. In the following years, the suitcases became part of the large-scale installation The Journey (1980–1990), presented for the first time at an unofficial exhibition at Bedřich Dlouhý's summer house in Netvořice (6 suitcases, 1981).Mahulena Nešlehová, Popis jednoho dne / Description of a Day - Netvořice '81, Výtvarné umění 6, 1990, pp. 107
