Irina Batkova

Gallery / Collective

Herbarium

Curator / Team

Curator

The Herbarium project examines the contemporary cultural environment, in which ideas are conceived and exchanged. The collection to the project documents the energy of the creative act, regardless of whether it is a fixed momentary outburst, or a precisely considered gesture. "Herbarium" is a collective noun, a pin for pricking images, thoughts, words, emotions, memories, objects, or in short - it describes the research drive of the visual artist to create new models of perception. The focus of the collection is to store creative energy from different generations of artists around the world in boxes similar to those in which plant specimens are stored. By joining the project, the participants perceive the dual role of researched and researcher proposing new participants and respectively new specimens for the selection. The development of the collection has no time limits, it grows exponentially with each new participant until the final exhibition is announced. "H Talks" video portraits were shot in the work environment of visual artists as part of the archive of the project "Herbarium”. In the short films, the artists describe the creative process in the realization of ideas and concepts about the world and people, the problems that excite them and stimulate the impulse that make them want to go on. The virtual database of this extraordinary collection is accessible to any professional or art lover interested in how content is created in contemporary culture.