Exhibition Opening
Michaela Davidová: The Metabolising Analogue

The Center for New Media Art – Vašulka Kitchen Brno cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition Michaela Davidová: The Metabolising Analogue on Tuesday, 10 December 2024 at 6 PM at the House of the Lords of Kunštát.

In parallel with The Metabolising Analogue, the exhibitions Emergency. Preparing for the Future and Your Addiction Is the Message will be opened.

PROGRAMME

18.00 Opening on the courtyard
18.30 Emergency. Preparing for the Future Exhibition talk - Lenka Dolanová and participating artists
19.00 Michaela Davidová: The Metabolizing Analogue Exhibition talk – Michaela Davidová and curatorial team
20.00 Your Addiction Is the Message - Barbora Trnková

PROGRAMME CHANGE

Dear Visitors, unfortunately Niyo Kunt will not be performing at G99 from 8pm due to illness. Thank you for your understanding and we invite you to a walk through of the exhibition with curator Barbora Trnková, which will take place at the same time.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Works presented in Michaela Davidová's exhibition manifest an approach to environmental photography balancing on the border between artistic research and procedural creation. Davidová explores alternative analogue photographic processes in the context of the digestive metabolic processes of organisms. Filamentous fungi and root systems penetrate the bowels of photography, nibbling and decomposing its matter. Substance, energy transformation, and the relationships between materials and human and non-human entities reveal possibilities of ecological and posthumanistic thought within photographic practice. 

Davidová has long been engaged in the materiality of photography; the properties of photographic paper, the chemical composition of the natural substances used, and their interaction in the analogue photographic process of the darkroom. In this approach, photography becomes a living organism, processing, digesting, excreting and recording the results of transformation on the surface of the photographic paper. The artist explores the material through the action of the very substances she uses in her experimental photographic processes, which create their own, unpredictable, pictorial trace rather than through her own human gaze.  Davidová emphasizes the process and understanding of the thin permeable layers that exist between humans and nature.   

Michaela Davidová (*1988) is an artist and researcher born in Ostrava currently living and working in Tilburg, the Netherlands. She graduated with a BA in Artist, Designer: Maker in Cardiff (UK) and an MA in Ecology Futures from Den Bosch (NL). She also leads workshops on alternative photographic processes, is a coordinator of the bio art [MI] Lab v CARADT and is co-curator of projects at the SEA Foundation in Tilburg. She collaborates with the community collective Sustainable Darkroom (UK) and is also a member of the Filmwerkplaats film lab in Rotterdam.