During her residency, current resident Magdalena Rybanská is exploring how emotions, reactions and attention are transformed into algorithmic capital. She is also interested in how the subject is formed through an internalized logic of constant reaction.

She works with symbols of digital communication – emoticons, which she perceives as post-digital hieroglyphs. She understands these symbols as condensed units of emotion, but also as tools that standardize the way feelings are expressed and experienced.

The first popup exhibition will present work in progress – new works created during the residency.

Magdaléna Rybanská (*1999) is a Slovak artist based in Prague. Her multimedia installations and sculptural work explore how expanding virtual space inscribes itself into the human physical experience. She works with metal, digital collage and personal archives of digital noise to reflect on the fragmentation of attention, the deformation of the body and the transformation of perception in the digital age. Her recent works emerge as deformed metal surfaces into which she transfers images of herself and hyperlinks and then physically disrupts them. The stresses and deformations of the surface function as an analogy for a fragmented flow of thought, in which scrolling becomes a way of thinking. His work combines a dystopian aesthetic with sarcasm and speculative musings on future forms of human identity.