Elusive Flow is an exhibition about the complexities of movement through space and time on a scale so large or so small that it sometimes eludes our perception. Luna Acosta and Teuta Gatolin, seemingly starting from different positions, through sharing their individual process, in discovering different expressions of corporeal and archival memory are searching for subtle moments of coexistence. 

Luna Acosta explores large human migration flows, and migrations that are not directly conditioned by human activity, like the movements of bacteria, insects or birds. In her work, she links human and non-human migrations using magnetite, minerals present in the bodies of all terrestrial beings, which humans, unlike other beings, cannot use for navigation. Teuta Gatolin ponders and observes physical, human memory in relation to digital memory using nostalgia, and visually strong objects of landmark quality which lost their primary function, but remain present supporting the perception of “deep time”. Her movement through the concept of memory envelops layers of digital and organic perception and recollection – by stacking files, fabrics, sounds, words, and images, leading us through the universal concept of time using an intimate and poetic approach.

Luna Acosta (Medellín, 1989) is a visual artist, teacher and researcher currently based in Barcelona. She is interested in narrating geographies and territories and in elucidating the interrelationships among landscape transformations, migratory fluxes and colonial order. She wonders about the construction of the collective memory when affected by colonial trauma and about the use of art as a possible tool for building technologies of emotional survival, narration, cartography and affection. 

Teuta Gatolin (Zagreb, 1993) is an intermedia artist who is often interested in mercurial, liminal, accidental, ambivalent and chaotic phenomena. She is currently researching nature narratives, ecology storytelling, the subversive potentials of mythological cunning, and the ways in which technology (as companion species) is remembered. Her works are often process-oriented, and they create their own iterations through collaborations. 

Martina Kontošić (Zagreb, 1981) graduated in art history and cultural anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. She is a curator and producer of cultural projects, coordinator and co-leader of projects in the fields of new media and contemporary artistic production. She works as a program associate in WHW and project coordinator in Kurziv, publisher of Kulturpunkt.hr.

Technical support: Andrija Santro

The exhibition is part of the project Coexistence III: Spaces of Movement. Conversation with artists and guided tour are a part of the project History of Art and Society: Artistic Ecologies. Masterclass and public conversation with Luna Acosta is a part of i-Portunus Houses pilot scheme.

Talk and Guided tour by Luna Acosta is part of the History of Art and Society: Artistic Ecologies program.

The program is supported by: 
Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
City Office for Culture, International Relations and Civil Society
Kultura Nova Foundation
Croatian Audiovisual Centre

The i-Portunus Houses pilot scheme is implemented, on behalf of the European Commission, by a consortium of organisations that have been pioneers of European cultural mobility programmes themselves. Coordinated by the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam), the i-Portunus Houses consortium involves MitOst (Berlin) as main mobility implementer and the Kultura Nova Foundation (Zagreb) as lead in evaluation and analysis.

Gallery hours: Tue–Fri 12pm–8pm; Saturday: 11am–2pm