You are cordially invited to the performative event by Lučka Centa at 10 pm at Račka Gallery.
The project was created at the short residency of AIR CELEIA as part of the accompanying program of the 5th Triennial of Young Artists PREMIERA 2022. Performance, interaction, process.
As humans, we are caught in a complex social network dominated by established hierarchical relationships. These power relations dehumanise the majority and value the individual not as a being but merely as a commodity. The Potatoroids project develops around the carving of potatoes as an allegory for the re-humanisation of the individual, where the potato takes on the role of the human being. The project playfully introduces the viewer to the social position of the individual, reminding them of their own strength and inviting them (through the use of a net) to reflect on the social system, collective captivity as well as the invincibility and eternity of the system itself.
Lučka Centa is a visual artist who intertwines performance, photography, video and installation in her work. In 2021, she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she researched artistic production within a natural, non-urban space with the aim of understanding the relationship between man and nature. During her studies she participated in various exhibitions such as Perform Art: The body in the times of COVID in Nature, Germ and Catastrophe: Land-art in the times of COVID (Paque del Oeste, Madrid), From introspection to the political body in Factoria Gallery de Arte y Desarollo ter Body, Art and Subject at the UCM Academy of Fine Arts. In 2021, she participated in a performance workshop with artist Abel Azcona, and in 2022, in addition to the Boundary Crossing program, she also attends the VN LAB as part of ViaNegativa.
