Ana Laura Richter (Swamp_Matter): Portals into Watery Multiplicity
light installation
Eiprrova Street / Gradascica river banks // until 20 June
OPENING: Tuesday, 26 May 2026, at 9:30 p.m.

The project was inspired by the microscopic world of the Ljubljanica River: at the foreground are organisms that exist beyond human sight, in space where nearly invisible changes unfold on scales we usually overlook. The river is an intertwinement of relationships between bodies, temperatures, sediments, infrastructure and memory. Its image emerges as a temporary configuration of forces. Material re-arrangements unfold quietly in small movements of micro-organisms; imbalances in chemical relationships and the regulation of flow gradually alter the structure of the river habitat. Water is a community of bodies that flow one into another; the same substance that flows through us dissolves banks, seeps through earth and evaporates into the air. The boundaries between human and non-human, organic and technological are porous and established only temporarily. /A. L. Richter & E. Garibaldi/

ANA LAURA RICHTER (1996) is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher. In her work, she intertwines ecology, digital media and speculative fiction. Her works of art, which are often based on research processes, function as digital extensions of landscapes, revealing the tensions and relationships between human more than human bodies. At the forefront of her oeuvre are aquatic ecosystems and marginal landscapes, where the boundaries between the organic, technological and human are established as temporary and conditional configurations. Together with Eva Garibaldi, she is active in the art-research duo Swamp_Matter.

Concept: Swamp_Matter (Ana Laura Richter & Eva Garibaldi)
3D design: Ana Laura Richter
3D technical design: Jure Sulič
Programming: Jernej Koprivnikar
Sculptures: Nina Tovornik