AiR 2026 / Eva Mora & Júlia Csapó

Visual artist Júlia Csapó and dance performer Eva Mora focused in their project on exploring the theme of the in-between space through the body. They understand the body as an active connector between people, objects, environments, and the world of the non-living. In this context, the body is not only an instrument of perception, but also an agent that shapes and reshapes the space between us.

The research took the form of playful exercises, movement experiments, and performative situations. During the residency, the artists also took part in the program of the Pardubice Museum Night at GAMPA, where they led a workshop inspired by their shared creative practice. The outcome of the residency is an artist’s zine, which serves both as documentation and as a practical guide with interactive exercises for exploring the in-between space. The zine currently exists in a working version, and the artists will continue to develop it further. Our aim is to publish it as an artist’s publication through a joint effort.

Eva Mora is a dance performer, improviser, and movement maker currently based in Prague. After completing her studies in contemporary dance, she began collaborating with independent companies and choreographers in Spain and Hungary. In 2021, she became a member of the improvisational dance theatre Willany Leó (HU) and the GrayBox company (FR). Since moving to Prague, she has been collaborating with PocketArt, Available Collective, and Manus.art.collective. As an artist, she works at the intersection of dance, theatre, contemporary circus, music, philosophy, and visual arts.

In her practice, Júlia Csapó explores the complex and layered relationships between the human and non-human worlds through questions of experience, perception, and representation. She primarily works with painting, a medium that allows her to move between abstraction, figuration, and fiction while interweaving a broad range of visual references. Her imagery draws on geological structures, biological forms, digital interfaces, mythological narratives, and fragments of personal experience. A recurring motif in her work is the encounter between the human figure and various natural environments and forms. These encounters suggest a desire for harmony, while also giving rise to a sense of uncertainty stemming from the simultaneous presence of estrangement and interdependence.

The OFFCITY AiR 2026 residency project is made possible thanks to the generous financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the State Culture Fund, and the statutory city of Pardubice.