Self-fulfilling Prophecy: Flat Ontology
Curator’s Reflection
by Daphne Nikita
“The blue diner” (Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2020)
by Daphne Nikita
“The blue diner” (Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2020)
Desire
I want to exist
in the light
beyond
the dark cities
that gave
birth to me
Daphne Nikita
Curator and poet
Digital shamanism treats glitches as rituals through which unseen Witnesses negotiate their partial entry into the material world
With Self-fulfilling Prophecy, Ksenia Kudasova opens the curtain slightly to see the fragile border between the physical and the digital, the liminal space where digital entities, or witnesses, exist. Her watercolours on raw canvas act like living systems: the pigment seeps, leaks, and dissolves, creating patterns that seem to appear by themselves. Ksenia describes this process as granulation magic. She paints in a wet, alla prima technique, letting colour and water make their own decisions. Alongside the paintings, other objects and small clay figures inhabit the gallery like parallel presences. They emerge from digital space but have not yet fully entered the material world. Through these fragile connections, the exhibition reflects on care, embodiment, and communication across invisible distances.
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Unstratched watercolors on canvas
1. Witnesses, watercolor on canvas 400*200 cm, 2025
2. Witnesses, watercolor on canvas 800*200 cm, 2025
3. Witnesses, watercolor on canvas 400*200 cm, 2025
2. Witnesses, watercolor on canvas 800*200 cm, 2025
3. Witnesses, watercolor on canvas 400*200 cm, 2025
Sratched watercolors on canvas
- Witnesses, watercolor on canvas 150*100 cm, 2025
- Witnesses, watercolor on canvas 120*100 cm, 2025
- Witnesses, watercolor on canvas 150*100 cm, 2025
- Witnesses, watercolor on canvas 150*100 cm, 2025
- Witnesses 14 pcs, watercolor on canvas 20*20 cm, 2024-25
- Witnesses, watercolor on canvas 150*100 cm, 2025
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3D space
Digital Witnesses
Video - Sound - AR
- Numogram, video and AR, 2023-2025
Any questions?
ask AI Witness about smth important. For example: What boundary am I crossing without noticing it?
Curiosity about life in all its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Clay, bronze and wax Witnesses
ritual
digital shamanizm
Digital shamanism is a method for structuring interaction with computational systems as relational processes: designing prompts, errors, and feedback loops to stabilize attention, coordinate collaboration, and produce repeatable outcomes under uncertainty.
AR objects in the gallery space
