Body in the interface | Lucia Čarnecká

Body in the interface | Lucia Čarnecká
Gallery Duża Scena UAP, 24 Wodna Str.
Opening: 5.02.2025, 18:00
Duration of exhibition: 5.02 – 2.03.2025
Curator: dr Tomasz Drewicz

Body in the Interface – Lucia Čarnecká
The exhibition Body in the Interface by Slovak artist Lucia Čarnecká invites
viewers to reflect on the transformations of sculpture in the digital age. The
artist redefines the traditional medium, transitioning from tangible, material
forms to virtual and performative spaces. Using technologies such as video
holograms, 3D scanning, and virtual reality, she explores the boundaries of
identity, cultural memory, and the interaction between the body and technology.
Čarnecká draws inspiration from both archaeology and contemporary digital
tools, juxtaposing raw materials like clay from Pezinok with immaterial digital
imagery. Works such as Resemblance and Stranger from Jericho delve into the
relationship between physical identity and cultural heritage – from familial facial
features to reinterpretations of ancient funerary practices. Simultaneously, the
artist questions the status of sculpture in the context of rapidly developing
technologies such as 3D printing and artificial intelligence.

The exhibition also highlights a feminist critique of art history. The piece
Čarnecka’s Hand challenges the lack of representation of female visual artists in
the canon, presenting a digital cast of the artist’s own hand as a contrast to
classical artifacts. In the series Action Two Hands Model, the artist emphasizes
the choreography of gestures in the sculptural process, which – stripped of its
original context – becomes an almost ritualistic dance, inviting contemplation of
the meaning of creative labor.

Body in the Interface is a narrative about the tension between tradition and
innovation, materiality and transience, materiality and digital abstraction.
Čarnecká confronts the viewer with questions about who we are in an era where
the boundaries between humans and technology are increasingly blurred.

dr Tomasz Drewicz – curator