ARTIST PROFILE

collective BJÖRNSONOVA

  • Slovakia (b. 2000 in Košice)
  • Currently in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Since 2015 she's breathing by: Zuzana Žabková, Nik Timková, Lucia Svoboda Mičíková, Lucie Kvočáková, Tamara Antonijevic, Tanja Sljivar and co-existing by and with Laura E. Meuris, René A. Huari, Fergus Johnson, Pawel Dudus, E. Priečková, Kata H. Bodoki
Harvesting Darkness

Harvesting Darkness

  • 2018
  • various types of silicone objects, videos, pigments

  • The word ‘darkness’ may cause negative feelings in some, conjuring ideas of emptiness and fear. Darkness is what the representatives of the Enlightenment movement of the 18th century considered to be the source of ignorance, evil and negative emptiness.

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    Harvesting Darkness | 2018

/ Harvesting Darkness / Centre for contemporary art FUTURA, Prague, April 24 - June 17, 2018 //// Zuzana Žabková, Lucie Mičíková, Nik Timková //// performance w/ Angela Niegotska, René Alejandro Huari Mateus, Laura Eva Meuris, Eva Priečková //// curated by: Viktor Čech / In their joint exhibition Harvesting Darkness, artists Zuzana Žabková, Lucie Mičíková and Nik Timková transform a part of the Futura Gallery into a setting where the viewer can experience their imaginative attempt to trade our self-destructive civilisation for a dark organic world in which new possibilities for existence may flourish. Working at the intersection of the artists’ own idiosyncratic aesthetic expression, discourses of post-human thought, and speculative fantasy literature, the artists try to create a synthesis in which the viewer is also involved. //// Lie down into wet green moss in the darkness of the forest. Breathe slowly and try to listen to the Echo of dark, deep and warm habitat of humus. In these fertile grounds is its slow pulse omnipresent. Follow your guides through places where are opening connection with this dark world. The places where human beings that lived before us tried to connect the realm of rationalised human existence with the stratum where organic life begins and also ends in unity. The never-ending cycle of this fertile layer is here connected both by the power of symbolic thought with ratio of human mind and by physical presence with visitor’s body. Let’ try to be gumans.