A multi-action program including performances accompanying our exhibition After the Future, OPEN STUDIOS of our Artists in Residence, and a film screening.

Born in 1974 in Bratislava, Anabela Žigová now lives and works primarily in New York.

Her work with objects inspired by physical structures and her video performances gradually evolved towards the creation of film works and films. Important in this work is the process of making the film material, and its possibilities to reach out beyond the narrative, psychology, visual stereotypes, analytical way of perception and conceptual thinking. Within the documentation and presentations of this process, individual fragments become independent works of art and movies themselves are sort of a byproduct.

Films:

VZDOR (trt: 03:00mins., Milan - New York, 2007. Premiered at Nuit Blanche in Paris in 2007.)

Melancholia says: "Follow me." (trt: 05:00mins., New York, 2004 - premiered at Exit Art Gallery, NYC)

SALTO MORTALE (feature length documentary - excerpts of work in progress only, film is in the last phase of its completion, to be premiered in 2014 by Film Europe)

A documentary film that exposes and brings to light still-suppressed facts of the activities of the Slovakian secret police during the communist era.The film looks at the ways that people whose relatives or close friends used to collaborate with the secret police are seeking to come to terms with their past.

http://anabelazigova.net/