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holo- (Michaela Cagáňová & Kamila Valešová), Elektra Stampoulou – PARADISE ROT
Holo- (Michaela Caganova & Kamila Valesova), Elektra Stampoulou- Paradise Rot
Event by: Šopa Gallery
Location: Hlavná 23/40, Hlavná 40, Staré Mesto
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Paradise Rot
Holo- (Kamila Valešová & Michaela Cagáňová) & Elektra by Stampoula
Exhibition Curator: Petra Housková
Opening of the exhibition: 24. 4. 2025/19.00
Opening hours:
pia/15.00 - 18.00
SOB/13.00 - 18.00
What would we reveal if we perceive the world primarily smell instead of sight? What unknown stories could smells and odors tell us?
"Paradise Rot" explores smell as a neglected sensory perception and at the same time as a powerful epistemological instrument. The fragrance - volatile, but visceral - directly communicates with our emotions and memories in a way that bypasses intellectual processing. Unlike visual or textual information, olfactory experiences resist documentation and classification, exist only as volatile moments of the meeting. Books found by the Holo- in the electricity library when they first worked together in Athens almost a year ago, which at the same time framed in a special way of their artistic practice. It deliberately confronts paradise (associated with perfection, beauty and stability) with rot (decomposition and transience). This provocative connection challenges the traditional binary thinking that puts growth and decomposition into the opposition. Instead, "Paradise Rot" presents these processes as interconnected phases in endless cycles, where destruction allows growth and repulsive gradually transforms into appealing. Each transformation- from birth to decomposition- creates characteristic olfactory signatures that indicate time processes and associate us with the archetypal understanding of the world. methodological and aesthetic approaches. Their joint research of fragrance as a narrative means overcomes visual dominance and invites visitors to experience the art of the meaning that is often neglected in contemporary artistic practice. Moving between diverse stories, wiping the boundaries between fiction and reality, captures the volatility of fragrances that pass and surround everything visual, spatial or material. With an emphasis on playfulness, we are invited to blow fragrant bubbles, after which the burst comes with a pleasant, but disturbing association. The present fragrant objects look intimately known, but at the same time unstable, fragile and hidden dangerously. Are we witnessing the end of the world while we live between these traces - fragments, remains and scents? Can these volatile perceptions be enchanted again? Their altar wall, depicting insect metamorphosis, along with a series of five fragrance compositions, capture the world's life cycle in five stages - from the appearance of the first organism to the extinction of the planet. If the prehistoric stages of the world had their fragrances, how would they smell? He is trying to reconstruct these narratives through his own fragrant fossils. A complete cycle that can be repeated over and over again. Through the motives of microorganisms and the developmental stages of insects, it proposes holo-forms of spirituality and communication beyond the human dimension, suggesting that other types may transcendence can experience primary chemical signals, not visual symbols. transformative possibilities of smell. During ecological transformations, the question is: which odor traces will survive the disintegration of current structures? Can these volatile but deep -rooted sensory perceptions help us rediscover our forgotten connections with other forms of life and understand the cyclic essence of all being? The Art Support Fund is the main partner of the project. 7.00 PM
Exhibition Duration: April 25 - May 31, 2025
Šopa Gallery, Hlavná 40, Košice
OPENING HOURS:
WED - FRI/3.00 - 6.00 pm
Sat/1.00 - 6.00 pm
World Primarily Through Smell Rather Than Sight? What UNKNOWN STORIES COULD SCENTS AND ODRES TELL US? SCENT - Ephemeral Yet Visceral - Communicates Directly with our Emotions and memories, bypassing Intellectual Processing. Unlike Visual or Textual Information, Olfactory Experiences Defy Documentation and Classification, existing AS AS Fleeting Moment of Encounter. First Time They Worked Together in Athens Nearly and Year Ago, And A Book That Oddly Frames Their Practice. IT Deliberately Confrons Paradise (Associated with Perfection, Beauty, And Permanence) with ROT (Decomposition and Transience). This Provocative Juxtaposition Challenges Traditional Binary Thinking That Positions Growth and Decay in Opposition. Instead, "Paradise Rot" Presents These Processes As Interconnected Phases in Endless Cycles, Where Destruction Enables Growths and the Repulsive Gradules Transforms Intractive. Each Transformation- from Birth to Decomposition- Creates Characteristic Olfactory Signatures this Mark Temporal Processes and Connect Us to An ArchetyPal Understanding of the World. Caganova and Kamila Valesova) and Visual Artist Elektra Stampoulou. Howver, They Approach Theme Through Different Methodological and Aesthetic Approaches. Their Shared Exploration of Scent As and Narrative Medium Overcomes Visual Dominance and Invites Visitors To Experience Art and Sense That Isleten Overlooked In Contemporary Artistic Practice.
Sculptural and Olfactory Works. Moving Between Diverse narratives, Blurring the Boundaries Betheen Fiction and Real estate, She Captures The Ephemerallity of Scents This Permeate and Surround Everything Visual, Spatial, OR Material. With an emphasis on playFulness, she invites us to flow fragrant bubbles, which, upon bursting, Bring Pleasant Yet Disturbing Associations. Various Scented Objects Seem Famililiar But Unreliable, Delicate, and Subtly Dangerous. Are We Witnessing The End of the World, Living Between These Traces - Fragments, Remains, And Scents? Are These Fleeting Perceptions Enough To Re-ENCHANT US? Their Altar Wall Depicting Insct Metamorphosis, Together with a Series of Five Scent Compositions, Captures the World's Life Cycle in Five Stages - From the Emergency of the First Organism To the Planet's Demise. If prehistoric stages of the world snake preserved their scents, what would theymell like? Holo Attempts to Reconstruct These narrathrive Through Their Scent Fossils, Capturing the World's Life Cycle in Five Stages - From the Emergency of the First Organism to the Extrinction of the Planet. And Complete Cycle That Can Repeat Again and Again. Through Motifs of Microorganisms and Developmental Stages of INSECTS, Holo- Proposes Forms of Spirituality and Communication This Transcend The Human Dimension, SugGesting That Other Species May Experience Transcendence Primarily Through Chemical Signals Rarther Than Visual Symbols. In a Time of Ecological Transformation, An Urgent Question Arises: which Olfactory Traces Will Survive the Collapse of Current Structures? Can thee Fleeting Yet Deepel Rooted Sensory Perceptions Help Us Rediscover ougotten Connections with Other Life Forms and Understand the Cyclical Nature of All existence? The Slovak Arts Council is the Main Partner of the Project.
Holo- (Kamila Valešová & Michaela Cagáňová) & Elektra by Stampoula
Exhibition Curator: Petra Housková
Opening of the exhibition: 24. 4. 2025/19.00
Opening hours:
pia/15.00 - 18.00
SOB/13.00 - 18.00
What would we reveal if we perceive the world primarily smell instead of sight? What unknown stories could smells and odors tell us?
"Paradise Rot" explores smell as a neglected sensory perception and at the same time as a powerful epistemological instrument. The fragrance - volatile, but visceral - directly communicates with our emotions and memories in a way that bypasses intellectual processing. Unlike visual or textual information, olfactory experiences resist documentation and classification, exist only as volatile moments of the meeting. Books found by the Holo- in the electricity library when they first worked together in Athens almost a year ago, which at the same time framed in a special way of their artistic practice. It deliberately confronts paradise (associated with perfection, beauty and stability) with rot (decomposition and transience). This provocative connection challenges the traditional binary thinking that puts growth and decomposition into the opposition. Instead, "Paradise Rot" presents these processes as interconnected phases in endless cycles, where destruction allows growth and repulsive gradually transforms into appealing. Each transformation- from birth to decomposition- creates characteristic olfactory signatures that indicate time processes and associate us with the archetypal understanding of the world. methodological and aesthetic approaches. Their joint research of fragrance as a narrative means overcomes visual dominance and invites visitors to experience the art of the meaning that is often neglected in contemporary artistic practice. Moving between diverse stories, wiping the boundaries between fiction and reality, captures the volatility of fragrances that pass and surround everything visual, spatial or material. With an emphasis on playfulness, we are invited to blow fragrant bubbles, after which the burst comes with a pleasant, but disturbing association. The present fragrant objects look intimately known, but at the same time unstable, fragile and hidden dangerously. Are we witnessing the end of the world while we live between these traces - fragments, remains and scents? Can these volatile perceptions be enchanted again? Their altar wall, depicting insect metamorphosis, along with a series of five fragrance compositions, capture the world's life cycle in five stages - from the appearance of the first organism to the extinction of the planet. If the prehistoric stages of the world had their fragrances, how would they smell? He is trying to reconstruct these narratives through his own fragrant fossils. A complete cycle that can be repeated over and over again. Through the motives of microorganisms and the developmental stages of insects, it proposes holo-forms of spirituality and communication beyond the human dimension, suggesting that other types may transcendence can experience primary chemical signals, not visual symbols. transformative possibilities of smell. During ecological transformations, the question is: which odor traces will survive the disintegration of current structures? Can these volatile but deep -rooted sensory perceptions help us rediscover our forgotten connections with other forms of life and understand the cyclic essence of all being? The Art Support Fund is the main partner of the project. 7.00 PM
Exhibition Duration: April 25 - May 31, 2025
Šopa Gallery, Hlavná 40, Košice
OPENING HOURS:
WED - FRI/3.00 - 6.00 pm
Sat/1.00 - 6.00 pm
World Primarily Through Smell Rather Than Sight? What UNKNOWN STORIES COULD SCENTS AND ODRES TELL US? SCENT - Ephemeral Yet Visceral - Communicates Directly with our Emotions and memories, bypassing Intellectual Processing. Unlike Visual or Textual Information, Olfactory Experiences Defy Documentation and Classification, existing AS AS Fleeting Moment of Encounter. First Time They Worked Together in Athens Nearly and Year Ago, And A Book That Oddly Frames Their Practice. IT Deliberately Confrons Paradise (Associated with Perfection, Beauty, And Permanence) with ROT (Decomposition and Transience). This Provocative Juxtaposition Challenges Traditional Binary Thinking That Positions Growth and Decay in Opposition. Instead, "Paradise Rot" Presents These Processes As Interconnected Phases in Endless Cycles, Where Destruction Enables Growths and the Repulsive Gradules Transforms Intractive. Each Transformation- from Birth to Decomposition- Creates Characteristic Olfactory Signatures this Mark Temporal Processes and Connect Us to An ArchetyPal Understanding of the World. Caganova and Kamila Valesova) and Visual Artist Elektra Stampoulou. Howver, They Approach Theme Through Different Methodological and Aesthetic Approaches. Their Shared Exploration of Scent As and Narrative Medium Overcomes Visual Dominance and Invites Visitors To Experience Art and Sense That Isleten Overlooked In Contemporary Artistic Practice.
Sculptural and Olfactory Works. Moving Between Diverse narratives, Blurring the Boundaries Betheen Fiction and Real estate, She Captures The Ephemerallity of Scents This Permeate and Surround Everything Visual, Spatial, OR Material. With an emphasis on playFulness, she invites us to flow fragrant bubbles, which, upon bursting, Bring Pleasant Yet Disturbing Associations. Various Scented Objects Seem Famililiar But Unreliable, Delicate, and Subtly Dangerous. Are We Witnessing The End of the World, Living Between These Traces - Fragments, Remains, And Scents? Are These Fleeting Perceptions Enough To Re-ENCHANT US? Their Altar Wall Depicting Insct Metamorphosis, Together with a Series of Five Scent Compositions, Captures the World's Life Cycle in Five Stages - From the Emergency of the First Organism To the Planet's Demise. If prehistoric stages of the world snake preserved their scents, what would theymell like? Holo Attempts to Reconstruct These narrathrive Through Their Scent Fossils, Capturing the World's Life Cycle in Five Stages - From the Emergency of the First Organism to the Extrinction of the Planet. And Complete Cycle That Can Repeat Again and Again. Through Motifs of Microorganisms and Developmental Stages of INSECTS, Holo- Proposes Forms of Spirituality and Communication This Transcend The Human Dimension, SugGesting That Other Species May Experience Transcendence Primarily Through Chemical Signals Rarther Than Visual Symbols. In a Time of Ecological Transformation, An Urgent Question Arises: which Olfactory Traces Will Survive the Collapse of Current Structures? Can thee Fleeting Yet Deepel Rooted Sensory Perceptions Help Us Rediscover ougotten Connections with Other Life Forms and Understand the Cyclical Nature of All existence? The Slovak Arts Council is the Main Partner of the Project.