Dernisage and guided tour of the exhibition I Wish that I Was Made of Stone with Lucia Tallová and curator Jan Kudrna.
Lucia Tallová works with objects, their memories and histories. Guided by her distinctive sensitivity and perception, she discovers and further develops remarkable connections between the shapes and materials of found items and her own artistic intervention. In doing so, she conducts a unique kind of archaeological research—not through sterile commentary on the original material, but through subtle, sensitive compositions that pose questions and leave space for answers.
Lucia Tallová (*1985) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava at the Department of Painting in the studio of Ivan Csudai. She is the winner of several prestigious awards, including the NOVUM Foundation Award, the Tatra Bank Foundation Award, the VUB Foundation Painting of the Year and the Strabag Kunstforum Art Award. She has participated in several international residencies in France, Austria, Brazil and California. She was also part of the 16th Biennale de Lyon in 2022. She regularly exhibits both in Slovakia and abroad. She has had solo exhibitions in the past in the Czech Republic, Holland, Turkey, France, Brazil and Japan.
Curated by Jan Kudrna
Zuzana Husárová is an author and theorist of electronic literature and digital media, and also creates experimental and sound poetry and poetic performances. She holds a PhD in literary studies (ÚSvL SAV) and works as an associate professor at the Department of Digital Art in Bratislava at VŠVU and as an external lecturer in interactive media theory at Masaryk University in Brno. She is the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Glosolália and also sings in the band Drť. In collaboration with visual artist Amalia R. Filipová, she has published the poetry collections Liminal (2012) and Lucent (2013), with poet Olga Peková the origami book Amoeba (2015), and the bilingual Slovak-German book Hyper (2021), translated by Martina Lisa. Together with programmer Ľubomír Panák, she created the neural network poetry collection Liza Gennart Výsledky vzniku (2020, Golden Wave Award). She co-edited two theoretical publications on electronic literature and worked at MIT as a Fulbright assistant. Her projects have been exhibited and presented in Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna, Krakow, and Boston, among other places. Together with Karel Piorecký, she co-authored the theoretical book The Culture of Neural Networks: Synthetic Literature and Art in (Not Only) the Czech and Slovak Context (2024), for which they received the N. Katherine Hayls Award for Criticism in Electronic Literature. In 2024, she published the poetry collection Hypomnemata (Premiere of the Literary Fund).
Lymph tuned the moaning of white marble
Zuzana Husárová's sound-poetic performance entitled Lymph tuned the moaning of white marble combines the semantics of layered images of polyphonic poetic expression with the materiality of sound-language play. Between glitch, singing, whispering, and reading, the vocal semantic resonances of the metamodern approach are reflected in a specifically modeled exhibition space that allows themes of energy transfer, transformations of human and non-human states, and the tension between expectation and (un)fulfillment to resonate.
Program subject to change.
