You are cordially invited to the closing of the exhibition Michaela Davidová: The Metabolising Analogue, which will be accompanied by an exhibition exploration with the artist and a film screening featuring artists and filmmakers who focus on storytelling within the realm of plant cinematography in their practice. 

Works by artists who have adapted their filmmaking techniques to their fascination with plant forms and the life processes of flora will be presented. The films will be available for viewing in both analog and digital formats. 

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 infiltrate 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. 

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. 

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Michaela Davidová: The Metabolising Analogue  

11 December 2024 – 16 February 2025 
Curators: Marika Svobodová, Tatiana Drgonec Dižová and Gajane Achverdjanová 

You can find further program and information about the exhibition at: https://www.vasulkakitchen.org/en/event/the-metabolising-analogue-michaela-davidova   

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Photo: Tatiana Drgonec Dižová