Too close to remember
The exhibition explores the theme of synaesthesis – i.e. a reaction of the body and mind and an experience that melds the sensory modalities of diverse entities existing in the digital, posthuman and technological environments. The project develops the discourse on various approaches to perception, especially in reference to the crisis of authenticity of human sensory perception that finds itself under pressure from contemporary power structures, surveillance and production.
It builds on the ideas of Maurice Merleau-Ponty who writes in his work Phenomenology of Perception that synesthesia offers proof that our perception is not formed by separate senses, but that it rather appears through their dialog and comprises the dynamic interaction of the whole body with its environment – i.e. reality. The exhibition does not aim to literally interpret approaches to neurological processes and their modifications. It rather becomes a situation, an opportunity for observation and encounter. The installations of the three featured artists aims to expand the frameworks of accepted alternatives and explores the often forcibly suppressed natural experiences of our sensory activity.
Patrícia Chamrazová focuses on contemporary ecological issues, accelerating technological development and interspecies forms of receptivity. She works with digital media, holding a degree in transmedia from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and in intermedia from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, where she is currently pursuing her doctoral studies in the Department of Digital Arts. Her practice uses the fluidity of artistic media; her work includes audiovisual installations with XR elements that she often expands with textual expressions and objects. She works on the border between the abstract and the organic, the conceptual and the intuitive, between science and metaphysics. Her approach is characterized by immersivity and a subtle digital aesthetic aiming at transformation, both in the physical as well as the digital spheres. She draws inspiration from posthumanist philosophy, microbiology and the study of new technologies. Her works have been part of exhibitions such as Sensing the In-Between (Šopa Gallery, Košice, SK, 2025), Leaving Traces (Vektor VR Section at Verzió Film festival, Budapest, HU, 2025) or Resensing – Beyond Symbiosis (Vašulka Kitchen Brno, CZ, 2024) and others. She has completed residencies at Foreign Objekt – Posthuman symposium (online, 2024), Kair rezidencia (Košice, SK, 2024) and Feral Artists in Residence at Schmiede (Hallein, AT, 2023).
Paula Malinowska is a digital media artist and photographer. She graduated from the Department of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava where she currently works, and is also a doctoral student at the Department of Digital Arts. Her artistic practice includes CGI audiovisual works, 3D printing techniques and photography that she further develops into multimedia installations. Her research is based on studies in the fields of biology, climatology and the development of digital technologies, which she connects with elements of speculative fiction and fantasy. She often focuses on the life cycles of beings (organisms) that provide inspiration for the creation of stories transcending the hierarchies established by human society and offering alternative perspectives on the possibilities of empathetic relationships and communication. Her work has been presented at many exhibitions, including More Than Human (Light Art Museum, Budapest, HU, 2025), Sentience (Voloshyn Gallery, Miami, Florida, US, 2024), Whoever settles in a perfect home will have to move (GLASSBOX, Paris, FR, 2023), and others. She has completed residencies at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna (2023), Residency Unlimited in New York (2024), and Plato Gallery in Ostrava (2025).
Zlata Ziborova builds on her research into substances and raw materials of organic origin that appear in everyday life or are often considered waste. In 2024, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in the New Media 2 studio and currently works in Prague. Her intermedia projects often address bodily materials such as hair or blood that she further transforms, creating poetic reflections on the relationships between corporeality, intimacy and artistic production. She works with organic waste and develops collaboration with entities such as bacteria, yeast and other organisms. She is interested in ecofeminist theory, interspecies relations and topics of production and sustainability. Since 2021, she has been working on the project My Body Is a Factory, where she strives to reuse and work with the productions of her own body. Working with corporeal substances and the more-than-human world, she uses media such as photography, video, participatory performance and object creation while emphasizing the need for sensitivity towards interspecies communities. Her exhibition projects include Feastopia (Industra Art Gallery, Brno, 2025), The Polymorphs Between Us (Světova 1, Prague, 2024) and Spheres of Intimacy (Pragovka Gallery, Prague, 2023). She has completed residencies at the Fundacja Inicjatyw Kulturalnych Potok in Poland (2025), Brno Artist in Residence at the Brno House of Arts (2025), Macro-biotopes in Bihać in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2024) and others.
Info
Artists | Patrícia Chamrazová, Paula Malinowska, Zlata Ziborova
Curator | Viktória Pardovičová
Duration | 25 February – 21 March 2026
Opening | 24 February 2026, 6 p.m.
Venue | GAMU (Gallery AMU)
Address | Malostranské náměstí 12, Praha 1 (the entrance from the passage to Tržiště Street)
Opening hours | Wednesday – Saturday 1 – 7 p.m.
Entry | Free
Wheelchair access | Yes
Programme available in English | Yes
Risk of stroboscopic effect | No
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