KATEŘINA
VALACHOVÁ
Intermedia artist
Installation · Immersive data · Cross-cultural research
Photo: Yuliya Povetkina, Kamila Turlubekova
Kateřina Valachová is an intermedia artist working at the intersection of installation practice, digital media, and cross-cultural inquiry. Her work explores the relationship between individuals and their environments through immersive experiences that make perceptible the processes operating beneath the threshold of everyday attention.
Drawing on both Eastern and Western frameworks of thought, she uses cultural difference as a tool for perception. Her practice spans site-specific projection, geospatial data pipelines, light art, and participatory installation.
She is completing her master's studies in Time-Based Media at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University, Czech Republic. Her thesis research applies East Asian geomancy as a perceptual framework for sensing environmental change — borrowing a centuries-old way of reading landscape to address what contemporary data alone cannot transmit.
UJEP, Czech Republic
Erasmus+ — Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest
Free Mover — Peter Behrens School of Arts, Düsseldorf
New York University Shanghai
Photo: Yuliya Povetkina, Kamila Turlubekova
Shengqi — vital energy in the East Asian geomantic tradition — is that which nourishes the land and everything within it. It gathers where wind is sheltered, water collects, and terrain encloses. Where those conditions fail, it withdraws.
Western thought has the data — species, coastlines, rain. It has no language for what is withdrawing: the felt quality of a place that draws life toward it, sustains it, and, under shifting conditions, ceases to hold. We know the data. We do not feel it.
This work makes that data perceptible: one place through its own wind, water, and terrain — what was, what is, what may no longer gather.
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