#43 collecting — Wanted
Lesia Vasilčenko

To “mould” is to form, shape or model a specific object. In this project, the word represents a visual investigation into the transformation of countries that were formerly part of the ‘Eastern Bloc’, which have transitioned from communism to capitalism…
Read moreThe digital collage Hledání mentefaktu (Finding the Mentefact, 2018) was created as an intuitive illustration for a performative research expedition at the site of a former landfill where a friend and I were staying…
Read moreBeloved Baking deliberates about our relationship with bread. It remains an integral part of our diet but no longer holds the same tangible and symbolic value it had in the past as modern Western diets have become more diverse…
Read moreIn Honey, Please (started in 2020), I have been reflecting on the chronic anxiety and recovery from the apocalyptic pathos caused by news coverage of, for example, the insect decline…
Read moreIsolation during the c ovid-19 pandemic gave us more time to spend both on ourselves and on things that we never had enough time for during normal goings-on. Some of my friends took up entirely new pastimes…
Read morePresentiment is less a record than an apprehension of the events currently taking place in my country. These impressions come together to make sequences of pictures and signs that I have recreated through photography…
Read moreThe multimedia installation Intertwined Conditions comprises five clusters of condensed image fragments, water containers with printing ink extracted from visual material, a hybrid transfer print, oxygen tubes, four video clips with sound, particleboard covered in wall paint and a section of scaffolding…
Read moreCan you hear it? Small bubbles burst at the orange juice surface… Tiny foamy bubbles.
He looked up through a big window to see the blue sky. She was there, perfect as never before…
In Eating Magma, I am exploring how it feels to be a living organism by focusing on 4 Fs: my Flesh, my Food, Fauna and Flora…
The Sun. The fundamental source of energy. It burns. It explodes. It radiates. It exhausts itself…
It Was Once My Universe is the story of a homecoming after a decade in the United States. The family farm – a dream house, a refuge for the imagination in exile – has become a foreign and uncanny world apart, moving in its own time field…
Read moreThe DUNA group is an open collective of artists (Lenka Balounová, Ladislav Kyllar, František Svatoš) focusing on themes of the futures such as ecology and technology. DUNA has presented at a number of independent exhibitions; as part of the 4+4 days in motion festival in Prague; in 2019, they introduced the first installment of their Adaptus series, which was then developed as part of an exhibition at NoD Gallery in Prague and on various online platforms…
Read moreI deal with topics of disability, chance and identity, using vocabulary derived from entertainment. Decisions in my work are based on personal experience as well as on ongoing research on cultural representations of disability…
Read moreBenedek Regős lives and works in Budapest. His main focus of interest is the role and impact of the photographic medium on human culture. By combining different genre specifics and technical features, he reflects on the nature of photography through science, architecture, history, and the built and tangible heritage…
Read moreGvantsa Jishkariani lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She received her Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Academy of Arts Tbilisi, and an Informal MA in Creative Mediation From CCA – Tbilisi…
Read morePamela Kuťáková graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. She has shown her work primarily in independent artist-run spaces, in the Jelení Gallery, in the 35 m2 Gallery, but also in group exhibitions in the National Gallery in Prague and in the Technical Library in Prague and in Amsterdam…
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