Gabriela Zigová: Dancing Through the Debris 2.0
Exhibition closing and guided tour: 30 August at 18:00
Venue: Fleck 2.0 Coworking, Mierové nám. 17, Trenčín
We invite you to the closing event of the exhibition Dancing Through the Rubble 2.0, featuring a dance performance by artist Gabriela Zigová in collaboration with dancer, performer and choreographer Libuša Č. Bachratá, with live musical accompaniment by Boris Vitázek, as well as a curator-led guided tour.
Sound, movement and material come together in a space where nothing remains in its original state. Gradually, they transform into instruments of rhythm, echo and destruction, creating an image of dance at the end of the world.
The exhibition will conclude with a guided tour led by curator Lucia Gavulová.
Libuša Bachratá studied at the Department of Dance at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU) and went on to pursue dance as an educator and solo flamenco performer. She began creating choreography for theatre while still a student, initially focusing on stage dance forms. Over time, theatre collaborations became increasingly prominent in her professional practice, eventually leading to original theatre work. As an educator and choreographer, she enjoys working with authentic movement, expressiveness and percussive forms of expression. In her original projects, she explores new forms of performance, focusing primarily on movement and dance performance.
About the Exhibition
Gabriela Zigová’s exhibition Dancing Through the Debris 2.0 is the artist’s visual diary, documenting a period spent within communities and subcultures shaped by the club scene. Rather than offering a documentary portrayal of this environment, it presents an authentic record of the lived experiences of people whose lives are inseparably intertwined with these communities. Zigová approaches photography as a physical and affective medium; the images were created without distance, with the camera becoming an extension of her body and vision.
The visual diary unfolds through the night, the body, relationships and cities that entered the artist’s life and then disappeared from it again. The project explores precarity not only as vulnerability, but also as a space for solidarity, care, joy and resistance to normative ideas of life and time. It captures forms of belonging and collective existence that emerge on the margins of dominant social structures.
What emerges is an intimate archive of lived experience – a microhistory written through the body, the night and collective experience. Dancing Through the Debris 2.0 is a record of moving through the debris of the present, but also a testament to the ability to find closeness, freedom and new possibilities for living together within it.
Bio
Gabriela Zigová grew up in Trenčín and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava (VŠVU), graduating in 2015 from Ilona Németh’s Open Studio. Since 2016, she has been based in London, where she became a member of The Steamship PS Collective in 2018. This independent, artist-run gallery was based in the historic docks of East London until 2024.
Gabriela’s practice focuses on photography, performance and spatial installations. By combining documentation with lived experience, she examines subcultural life as both an existential and political space – a temporary refuge where, despite instability and uncertainty, alternative forms of belonging, care and resistance can emerge. She recently brought these themes together in the book Dancing Through the Debris.
