Tina Bxtq - Obstacles As Wings

Obstacles As Wings
Tina Bxtq

Curator of the exhibition:Štefánia Ďuricová
Opening of the exhibition and performance: 29 January 2026 / 18.00
30 January - 13 March 2026
Šopa Gallery, Hlavná 40, Košice
Opening hours:
WED - FRI / 15.00 - 18.00

The future of posthuman and queer imagination brings hybrid bodies, monstrous and angelic beings defying unambiguous categorization. They dismantle established notions of the body and identity. The angel fragments in the exhibition are the remains of a performance in which the body functions as a material capable of both regeneration and decay. The body is seen here as a costume, a form of self-expression and survival. The wearable object represents a two-headed posthuman being that disintegrates, viscera are released, and new parasitic entities emerge from the decomposition. It is a deconstructed, posthuman and non-binary corporeality.
In Obstacles As Wings, the angel is not a transcendental being, although the reference of the fallen angel cannot be ignored, but a post-traumatic being that has had to adapt. The non-human organisms that thus arise in the dystopian world, the insects and decaying animal forms, do not appear threatening or morbid. The viscera and abstracted organic elements symbolize emotion rather than violence itself. Tina's aesthetic works purposefully with cuteness. Cuteness is a tool of attraction but also of power, a subversive element of the everyday. Cuteness functions here as gender ambivalence; the creatures have no clear gender. On the one hand delicacy and on the other monstrosity, therein lies a tension in which new possibilities can open up.
The opening performance activated the space and integrated the media into a single narrative. The costume in the gallery is a permanent trace and the installation becomes site-specific. It functions as a continuous plot in which drawings and ceramic objects finish the performative act. The performance also takes on the role of a narrator*who*is in control and transfers the discomfort from personal experience to the audience. Here, trauma and metamorphosis of the body become a way of overcoming obstacles and coming to terms with reality. This 'psycho-magical' act has a reflexive, therapeutic level. The theatricality and performativity of the exhibition evoke a sense of discomfort and surreality, but at the same time open up a space for the imagination of a possible future world. Traumatic evolution functions as a starting point, a scar, a rupture of the established body system, shaped by collective experience. The exhibition thus touches upon Rosi Braidotti's idea that the posthuman condition does not mean the end of the subject, but its rearrangement under conditions of crisis, where new forms of existence are generated from negative experiences.
The gallery space is transformed into a dystopian world - a laboratory dominated by human-animal forms, parasitic entities and non-human organisms hatching from eggs. Parasitism here does not only mean violence or destruction, but also a strange form of symbiosis. The world Tina creates adapts to all new entities, pointing to the dysfunctional systems we live in today. We are witnessing the disintegration of the collective body as a result of polycrises, violence and death that cannot be excluded from our reality.

Štefánia Ďuricová

Tina Hrevušová (*1998) is an artist based in Prague, where after studying at UMPRUM she is currently continuing her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts (AVU). Her work combines drawing, ceramics, sculpture and performance into a hybrid methodology that explores posthuman identity, corporeality and the psychological processes that shape subjectivity. She sees the body as a mutable material and a permeable membrane, drawing on feminist and queer perspectives or theories of monstrosity. Her works often work with trauma as a formative force, combining an unsettling or abject aesthetic with elements of theatricality. She has presented her work in solo exhibitions in Prague at Pragovka Gallery, Bratislava (Kunsthalle Bratislava), Stockholm (Konstfack) and Berlin.

WARNING: The opening performance contains sensitive content, which is not recommended for underage viewers and audience members, as well as people with sensitive natures.
This gallery's exhibitions are supported by public funding from the Arts Endowment Fund. The Art Support Fund is the main partner of the project. Projet is further supported by the Tatra banka Foundation.