exhibition
A FABLE FOR TOMORROW
Imran Channa & Kateryna Lysovenko
10/11 – 31/12/2024
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
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Venue: philomena+ project room, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna
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The exhibition is part of the Vienna Art Week 2024.
Imran Channa & Kateryna Lysovenko, A Fable for Tomorrow, philomena+, image by AIÂ
Based on the architecture of decommissioned nuclear power plants, Imran Channa and Kateryna Lysovenko research the post-anthropogenic landscape. Human desire and technological development show the consequences on the biosphere, causing devastation and the disappearance of many creatures. Using artificial intelligence, digital software as well as large-scale analogue drawing and painting, Imran Channa and Kateryna Lysovenko create ‘A Fable for Tomorrow’, – a new landscape from which humans have disappeared, but where seeds of new life are emerging.
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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