Gabriela Zigová: Dancing Through the Debris 2.0
Curator: Lucia Gavulová
Opening: 16 July 2026, 6:00 PM
Exhibition dates: 17 July – 30 August 2026
Venue: Fleck 2.0 Coworking, Mierové Square 17, Trenčín
About the exhibition
Dancing Through the Debris 2.0 is Gabriela Zigová’s visual diary, documenting a period of her life spent within communities and subcultures shaped by the club scene. Rather than serving as a documentary record of this environment, the exhibition offers an authentic account of the lived experiences of people whose lives are deeply intertwined with these communities. Zigová approaches photography as a bodily and affective medium; the images were created without distance, with the camera becoming an extension of her body and her gaze.
This visual diary unfolds through the night, the body, relationships, and cities that entered the artist’s life and later disappeared from it. The project explores precarity not only as a condition of 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.
The result 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 both a record of moving through the debris of the present and a testament to our ability to find closeness, freedom, and new possibilities for living together within it.
Biography
Gabriela Zigová grew up in Trenčín and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, completing her studies in 2015 in Ilona Németh’s Open Studio. Since 2016 she has been based in London, where she joined the artist collective The Steamship PS Collective in 2018. This independent, artist-run gallery was located in the historic docks of East London until 2024.
Her artistic practice spans photography, performance, and spatial installation. Combining documentation with lived experience, she explores subcultural life as both an existential and political space—a temporary refuge where alternative forms of belonging, care, and resistance emerge despite instability and uncertainty. These themes were recently brought together in her publication Dancing Through the Debris.
