Trenčín-born photographer Gabriela Zigová, who has been based in London since 2016, presents her latest artist book, Dancing Through the Debris, through a combination of video, installation, photography, and performance.
Exhibition dates: 17 July – 30 August 2026
Venue: Fleck 2.0 Coworking, Mierové námestie 17, Trenčín
Opening hours: Friday–Sunday, 3:00–6:00 PM
Admission: Free / Recommended for ages 15+
Opening reception: 16 July, 6:00 PM
About the Exhibition
Through videos, installations, photographs, and performance, Gabriela Zigová’s exhibition presents her recent artist book Dancing Through the Debris.
The publication serves as a photographic reflection on a period of the artist’s life spent in close proximity to communities and subcultures surrounding the club scene. Rather than documenting this environment from the outside, the work maps states of existence in which the individual is inseparable from the community from which they emerge. It is the perspective of a participant rather than an observer.
Zigová approaches photography as a bodily and affective medium. The images were created without distance; the camera became an extension of her body and of the situations depicted. Her visual diary is situated in the night, in the body, in precarity, in friendships, and in the cities that entered and later left her life. It captures the movement and resilience of communities operating in survival mode. The people in her photographs live in close proximity to an uncertain future, shaped by the economic and social fragility of the present.
Addressing precarity not only as a condition of vulnerability but also as a space for solidarity, joy, and resistance to normative ideas of life and time, the exhibition unfolds as an archive of survival—a micro-history written through bodies, the night, and collective dancing through the debris.
Lucia Gavulová, Curator
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.
