Ambient Evening for the Exhibition Eva with Milan Mazúr and Adam Badí Donoval
We warmly invite you to an ambient listening evening taking place on January 20 at 6 PM at Fotograf Zone Gallery. The evening will open with a live listening session of the soundtrack to the film Eva, performed by Adam Badí Donoval, accompanied by a live reading by Milan Mazúr from the collective publication Nobody and Nowhere, which thematically follows his film Eva, currently on view in the gallery.
Adam Badí Donoval
The soundscapes of Adam Badí Donoval invite listeners to explore affective phenomena that quietly inscribe themselves into our everyday experience, often without being noticed. Whether it is the spatially and sonically delicate electroacoustic rain of his debut album Sometimes Life is Hard and so We Should Help Each Other (2022, Trilogy Tapes), or the heavy blanket of lost reality on his subsequent album a mirror where the image and the mirror wholly coincided(2025, mappa), Donoval’s work dissolves echoes of acoustic instruments into electronic modulation, merges voices with wind, and lets loops drift into the timelessness of tape players.
His approach to sound is grounded in attentive observation of the surrounding environment. Field recordings enrich the mosaic-like structure of his compositions, lending sounds their own sense of temporality. Donoval composes vivid sonic images—whether prompting reflections on human interconnectedness or on the inescapability of one’s environment. His sound meditations are accompanied by both bitter melancholy and quiet hope, all wrapped in fragile, porcelain-like tones and shaped in collaboration with fellow artists including Martyna Basta, Adela Mede, and Tomáš Niesner.
Milan Mazúr
Milan Mazúr is a visual artist working primarily with experimental film and interdisciplinary projects. His practice is rooted in cinematic thinking as a natural point of departure: the camera serves as an elemental tool for sharing and storytelling. He works with dreamlike, non-linear narration, in which themes of memory, nostalgia, and time recur through gestures of disappearance and reappearance. His work connects a horizontal narrative with a vertical, almost “archaeological” stratification of meaning.
Slowness plays a crucial role, as does an acute attention to rhythm and intensity of the gaze. Equally important is a personal mythology composed of fragments of reality, memories, and fiction. Mazúr often engages with the nostalgia of places and landscapes, “searching through” remnants and traces of past events and transforming them into visual situations. A distinctive visual strategy in his work is the interplay of image and text—text operates as an additional layer of meaning, rhythm, and narrative shift, complementing, disrupting, or reorienting the image. His visual language is also informed by contemporary mass visual culture, expressed through shifting color palettes, the use of appropriated materials, and the tension between corporeality and commodified perfection.
