OVERVIEW
Ventcislava Nekova, Shir Daniel and Natália Štojková are three visual designers whose shared practice grew out of a background in dance. Through Craft-Digitalism, they work between digital tools, physical making and the live body as a point of origin.
Their work considers the body as an archive of gesture, memory and lived experience, using it to explore how constant online self-curation shapes identity within an endlessly moving digital feed. Working collaboratively without fixed roles, each piece is developed collectively and carries the perspective of all three artists.
2026Year
Saatchi GalleryVenue
British Art FairPresentation
ARTISTS
Ventcislava Nekova, Shir Daniel and Natália Štojková
DIVIDED CHOREOGRAPHY
The first physical work, Divided Choreography, is a four-panel folding screen made from laser-cut birch plywood with a metallic finish. A room divider normally separates private from public space, but this one makes that division unstable. Gestures of hiding, prayer, introspection and emotional excess form an interrupted choreography across the panels. The body is concealed and exposed at the same time, fragmented by the screen and turned into part of its structure.
The choice of the folding screen also connects contemporary digital performance with older rituals and spaces of self-presentation. Historically associated with dressing, privacy and domestic interiors, it becomes a way of considering the particular pressure placed on women to observe, construct and repeatedly present themselves.
DIRECTION FOR MOVEMENT X, Y AND Z
Three related sculptures, Direction for Movement X, Y and Z, are made from laser-cut transparent acrylic. Their titles refer to the three axes used to define space in 3D software, while the word direction also recalls an instruction given to a dancer. Each sculpture repeats a single figure across identical transparent panels until the individual body becomes difficult to distinguish from the larger structure. Transparency produces distortion rather than clarity.
