PrivatePrint Studio

Lara Reichmann: Disposable Bodies
5.3.-26.3.2026
PrivatePrint Studio

A Bright Past Is Ahead of Us is a group exhibition curated by Ilija Prokopiev and Marija Hristova (PrivatePrint), first produced and presented at Škuc Gallery Ljubljana in June 2025. In 2026, it is moving to PrivatePrint Studio (Skopje, North Macedonia) as a dispersed program of 5 small solo exhibitions throughout the year.

“Disposable Bodies,” a video installation by Lara Reichmann, interweaves historical fact and fiction, drawing on the story of the Women Astronomical Computers, women employed at the Harvard Observatory in the late 19th century, documenting and mapping stars in the night sky. The video installation, with its historical background and the very setting, uses metaphor and poetic narrative to question who is remembered and how bodies become tools in data-centric systems.

Lara Reichmann (1995) is a visual artist based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, working in the fields of video, animation, and digital graphics. Combining historical fragments with fictional narratives, she (re)imagines stories of forgotten, erased, or elusive places, as well as figures who exist on the margins of recorded history. Her recent projects focus on remote sensing imagery and photography as tools for data extraction, questioning the objectivity of such visual material and the kind of dispersed viewpoint that digital technologies make possible. Through the use of cinematographic and theatrical elements, she explores different approaches to storytelling within exhibition spaces.

Lara Reichmann’s exhibition in Skopje is realized in coproduction with Škuc Gallery Ljubljana. A Bright Past Is Ahead of Us, 2026 edition, is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture of North Macedonia.

During the exhibition there was an art talk A Walk through the Archive by Tia Čiček with Lara Reichmann. The art talk program is curated by Jana Stardelova and organized in cooperation with Tiiiit! Inc. Skopje.

Photographs: Aleksandra Kostadinovska