Queer Ecologies is a group exhibition that looks for non-hierarchical ways to think about nature, power, and coexistence. My contribution brings mathematical painting into this space as an image of relation, not domination. Queer Ecologies brings together twelve artists from within and beyond the Faculty of Fine Arts at Brno University of Technology. It searches for alternatives to the idea that humans stand at the top of nature’s hierarchy and therefore have the right to exploit resources, destroy ecosystems, and dominate other species. It is a multidisciplinary exhibition with photography, painting, video, performance, installation, and other approaches that challenge the dominant human nature relationship.

In my paintings, mathematics becomes a visual grammar that is not human-first. A variable does not rule. It depends. A bracket holds, but it also separates. An equation fragment suggests order, but it also admits what is unknown. The symbols work like an ecology of signs. Meaning is shared across relations. No single element sits at the top. The painting becomes a field of coexistence.

Queer ecology rejects hierarchy as a natural given and treats it as a constructed worldview. My mathematical language supports that refusal through dependency, constraint, balance, and transformation. The form stays strict, but it still holds vulnerability, error, and drift. The works are political without becoming illustrative. They do not treat nature as scenery. They propose a structure of attention where humans are only one term among many.

Queer Ecologies ran at FFA Gallery (Galerie FaVU) from 16 May to 19 June 2024, curated by Ladislav Jackson and Barbora Lungová.

production: Marie Vařeková, Jan Bražina
graphic design: Barbora Malo, Kateřina Srbová
photo report: Polina Davydenko