Patrícia Chamrazová

Sensing the In-Between

Invisible mycelial threads interweave with cybernetic networks in a world where microscopic lives become architects of new senses. We find ourselves in the space between – between human and more-than-human, between organic and technological, between what is and what could be. Symbiotic bacteria whisper secrets about magnetic fields, while pink membranes pulse to the rhythm of posthuman desires. It is a world that exists after anthropocentrism, yet before a new form of coexistence – where radical connections are born in the depths of organic technologies and where we learn to perceive differently, more deeply, sympoietically.

Patrícia Chamrazová’s solo exhibition project, Sensing the In-Between, materialises visions inspired by Donna Haraway’s concept of sympoiesis and empirical research showing that the magnetic “sixth” sense of some animals does not originate from their cells, but from symbiotic bacteria living in their bodies. These microorganisms – invisible navigational companions – become the key to imagining new posthuman sensory possibilities. Through 3D animation, mycelial sculptures, lenticular images, and virtual reality, the artist creates an immersive environment for contemplating futures where microscopic beings expand our perception and enable radical empathy with the more-than-human. The project offers a poetics of “slow thinking” – a process that rejects a technocentric approach in favour of more profound reflection on the ecological and ethical dimensions of our planetary existence.

Patrícia Chamrazová is a visual artist engaged in artistic research focused on contemporary questions of ecology, accelerating technological development, and more-than-human relationships. She utilises the fluidity of artistic media; her practice encompasses film, audiovisual installations, and XR, which she often extends with forms of textual statements and object elements. She moves from abstract to organic, from conceptual to intuitive, from science to metaphysics. She employs an approach characterised by immersiveness and soft digital aesthetics aimed at transformation in both physical and digital spheres. She draws inspiration from posthuman philosophy, microbiology, and new technology studies. She graduated from the Department of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava and from the Department of Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She is currently continuing her doctoral studies at the Department of Digital Art at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.

The program of this gallery is supported using public funding by the Slovak Arts Council. The Slovak Arts Council is the main partner of this project. The project was also supported by the City of Košice and the Košice Self-Governing Region.