Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava April 24 — May 14, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
An omnipresent static bustle stretches through a fluid world where desires take root in synthetic bowels. We find ourselves in a space where cold trades places with warmth, tension gives way to calm, and the human exchanges roles with the technological – though it is there that it can pulse again, discovering new forms of sensibility, learning to survive, differently and more powerfully. This is a world that exists after, and yet before. Residual memory and a sense of the familiar call for tactile experience, but we choose to remain silent observers of the unfolding coexistence of new forms. The human trace is fleeting, at best, or entirely erased, yet beneath the surface of technological processes, glimpses of sensory life persist—hidden, deep within.
The project Distant, Endless Hum unites, for the first time, the works of Natalia Sýkorová and Milan Vagač in a dialogue. Divergent artistic approaches converge in the pursuit of hybrid situations, where we observe unfamiliar forms with uncertain functions. Both artists craft imaginative environments and speculative narratives that disrupt well embedded perceptions of reality and its interpretations. They evoke (in)human perspectives aligned with technological realms, synthetic materials, and alternative or futuristic visions. The objects and paintings—infused with abstract and geometric elements—speak a visual language that offers us a look at the autonomous mechanisms that reside between surface and space.
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, EDLESS HUM, Curated by Michal Stolárik, Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač @VUNU, Bratislava, 2025
DISTANT, ENDLESS HUM Natália Sýkorová, Milan Vagač
VUNU, Bratislava April 24 — May 14, 2025
Curation: Michal Stolárik
Photography: All images copyright and courtesy of the artist and the gallery.