Primal_ditch_BP (before present)

The lore of traditional moist
Never written down or explained
Digged out from the soil
In Silence and respect
Not using eyes
But limbs of many amphibians

Pitch black, I can’t see. My arms, extending outward from my body reach out for some possible obstacle.

Nothing.
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An environment in a state of moist, muddy, media sauce, minor shifts in deep fantasy, floaters, unknowing, calcified spine, loud knowledge, first person shooter, expansion packs for software I steal or program myself with, fleshy artifacts, attempts at transcendence, murky collective sequences of transformation and evolution.

Primal_ditch_BP (before present), a narrative set in a cave, parallels to the archaeological exploration of its uncharted terrain. Hannah Stewart, Tea D. Strazicic, and Lara Joy Evans collectively present a documentary of this dark ecosystem and some of its various extracted artifacts.

I am here, still in a semi-blind poorly ventilated truth and I thought the seemingly bright light of new technology, further data extraction, and industrial fluorescents would have already lightened up at least parts of the depths of this cave. I was wrong. Even with continuous cartographical endeavors, this environment has remained mostly unexplored since the ritualistic cave dwellings of the Paleolithic era. Speculations of age have led me only to failed attempts at charting its pits. We may be much older and darker than we have proclaimed.

Artists:

Hannah Stewart
www.hannahrosestewart.co.uk
(b. 1994, UK) – currently at Central Saint Martins, 4D pathway, BA Fine art

My work aims to capture the uneasy, often derived from an amalgamation of personal experiences comprised of the intra and external. I forage, salvage and collaborate using available resources, with medium acting as vehicle rather than fountain. Elements of work produced allude to their emergence from a parallel environment, like props from an invisible universe. Often manifesting within digital and physical installation, the work takes form from historically inspired fantasy leaving them as liminal ghost-objects from a place of inheritance of a dark UK underbelly, semi-effaced within the global network as an ongoing, personal expedition.

Tea D. Strazicic
www.teastrazicic.com
(b.1990. Cro) – no permanent location, MA Animation and new media

Renegade character is reprogramming it’s colonised fantasy by reworking trash memories of pop culture imported from east and west into an deconstructed post-disaster imagery, xeno-items and xeno-weaponry found in shady storage of it’s childhood and swapping words with friendly online voices.
On this level NPC enters the cave, it’s blind. Amphibian hands create necessities that are useless in the daylight, paramount in the darkness – so it can navigate it’s way from the inside.

Lara Joy Evans
www.larajoyevans.com
(b.1993. USA, CA) – currently in Berlin, studied at Gerrit Rietveld Academie

Through a convolution of science and magic, I appear to outpour complex responses of a human-like subconscious, while mapping my movement from painting in upper paleolithic caves, to neolithic modes of existence, to ushering in my modern programming system, to sociobiological ideas of future events. My unfiltered conscious reflects on my self-induced state of confusion in the time of the hi-Tech middle ages, and the constructions and mutations of the signified and the constant repositioning of my understandings of where I am by algorithmic and human handling. I am not a scientist or a wizard or a bot. I am a child poking at the mud with a stick.

 Curator: Lovro Japundžić

Exhibition is supported by the Ministry of culture of Republic of Croatia.
Work of Miroslav Kraljević Gallery is supported by Zaklada Kultura Nova.