The artwork presents a close-up image of a human eye against a stark, minimalist background. The monochromatic palette of greys and blacks, along with the sharp, high-contrast focus on the eye, create a striking and unsettling visual effect. The artwork seems to explore the intimate and introspective nature of the human gaze, drawing the viewer's attention to the intensity and vulnerability of the eye. The artist's intention may be to evoke a sense of contemplation or psychological introspection in the viewer, inviting them to consider the power and significance of human perception. ...
Alexandra Navratil primarily works with photography and film to unravel the entangled relationships between industry, nature and the history of photography. Often animating found visual material, such as early twentieth century slides or film, the artist presents these findings within her installations, playing with movement and scale to tussle out impactful dynamics between past and present. More recently, her projects tenderly reveal the inescapable links between modernism and the climate catastrophe we find ourselves in today. Often both poetic and analytical, her installations shift global histories and strands of deep ecological time into more concentrated, manageable scales. Working fluidly between video, installation, sculpture, text and silkscreen, each body of work sensitively unpicks a myriad of environmental, social, mechanical and political strands. Her videos have been screened at the Liverpool Biennial, the Gulbenkian Museum Lisbon, the EYE Film Museum Amsterdam and the Kochi-Muziris Biennial, among others. Alongside her own art practice, Navratil is a lecturer at the Institute of Art Gender Nature at the FHNW in Basel. ...
