exhibition

A FABLE FOR TOMORROW

Imran Channa & Kateryna Lysovenko

10/11 – 29/12/2024

curated by Christine Bruckbauer

Opening: Saturday, November 9, 2024, 6 pm
Exhibition duration: 10/11 – 31/12/2024

Vienna Art Week Tour: Friday, November 15, 2024

 

Venue: philomena+ project room, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna

 

The exhibition is part of the Vienna Art Week 2024.

Imran Channa & Kateryna Lysovenko, A Fable for Tomorrow, philomena+, image by AI 

The post-anthropocene landscape in the aftermath of an ultimate MCA forms the central focus of the collaborative exhibition project “A Fable for Tomorrow”.

 

Imran Channa (*in Shikarpur, Sindh, Pakistan; lives and works in Utrecht, Netherlands) often uses archive materials in his artistic work. Based on this, he employs game development software for the creation of immersive 3D landscapes that refer to a speculated future. He digitally navigates the viewer through the monstrous architecture of the accident site, a nuclear power plant after the meltdown. The journey leads beyond the reactor through the shaft of the cooling tower into a devastated landscape, which unfolds analogously in the philomena+ project space and transforms it into a space of experience.

 

Kateryna Lysovenko (* in Kiev, Ukraine; lives and works in Vienna, Austria) refers in her painting to the Red Forest, the exclusion zone in Chernobyl after the nuclear disaster of 1986. Due to the high levels of radiation, the pine trees turned reddish-brown and died, and mutations in the genetic material of humans and animals occurred. After the evacuation of the people, more animals moved into the area. In the years that followed, the diversity of fauna and flora in the Red Forest increased significantly. Nature in this area not only seems to have survived, but also thrived.

artists

IMRAN CHANNA (PK)

Imran Channa (*in Shikarpur, Sindh, Pakistan, lives and works in Amsterdam) studied at the National College of Arts in Lahore and at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht in the Netherlands. His work deals with the power and politics of storytelling and how the act of storytelling creates information and misinformation. He explores this theme through the lens of archives, architecture, artefacts, film and technology. He uses drawing, painting, moving images, installations and digital technology as a means to explore this mechanism of power and its influence on shaping social consciousness. Imran Channa’s work has been shown worldwide in numerous museums, galleries, art fairs and media art festivals in the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, the USA, Belgium, Switzerland, France, Israel, UAE, Algeria, Hong Kong, Singapore, India and Pakistan.

KATERYNA LYSOVENKO (UA/AT)

Kateryna Lysovenko (* in Kiev, Ukraine, lives and works in Vienna) studied painting at the Grekov Art School in Odessa and Media Art and Monumental Painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kiev. Today she uses an artistic media scope that ranges from monumental painting to painting, drawing and text. In terms of content, Kateryna Lysovenko deals with the relationship between ideology and painting, the production of the image, often the victim of politics and art, from antiquity to the present day. Kateryna Lysovenko views painting as a language that can be instrumentalised or liberated. Kateryna Lysovenko has participated in countless group exhibitions in Kiev, Lviv, Graz, Zurich, Berlin Dresden, Venice and Vienna.

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