Filip Harna (°1992) is Chzech artist based in Brussels. Graduating from the Royal Academy of Brussels with a master of painting in 2018, he has participated in artist residencies and group exhibitions in places like the Moonens Foundation in Brussels.

Harna has collaborated with Anna Zanichelli to construct an altar-shaped installation in situ. This altar, called ‘112 Blueberries Handpicked only for You’, is the central piece of the ‘Atlas’ room. It is made of soap with a Trompe-l’oeuil marble effect painted on its surface.

Water drips onto the altar during the exposition to create deterioration and self-destruction over time. 

The title engraved into the structure references a sharing moment, an offering, or a sacrifice to ‘the other’. 

Harna and Zanichelli placed blueberries on this object of tribute. Some blueberries are natural; others porcelain; some are edible, others stone. Some will rot, and others appear eternal. A visible erosion in time, in contrast to ‘the absolute’.

Filip Harna’s work revolves around movement via the forces of nature and the passing of time. His work has a nostalgia resonating with Pripyat, Chernobyl. 

In the playfulness of his belief, he is the explorer of rare imaginative worlds that contain a remembrance of humanity within their desolate landscape.

He studies the imbalance produced by those details penetrating the harmonic flow of this landscape. 

Trash becoming part of nature and human consumption affecting the natural landscape is terrifying yet visually interesting.

It is a mirror for humanity and the artist himself. Degradation is a material witness to the cycle of life and a memento mori to humankind and the individual.