Jatun Risba: Tableau Vivant

Jatun Risba (SLO): Tableau Vivant
Eröffnung: 02.03.2026, 19 Uhr, Performance 19:30
Ausstellung: 03.-06.03.2026, 15-18 Uhr
Ort: k48 – Projektraum Oliver Hangl

Performance, Exhibition
(k48 #231)

Tableau Vivant is a new work by Jatun Risba that unfolds as both a participatory body-printing performance and an installation, engaging two of the artist’s longstanding material collaborators: menstrual blood and liquid chlorophyll. The work centres on a large piece of cloth bearing a printed map of ongoing armed conflicts across the world. Through direct bodily contact, facilitated by audience participation, the artist produces body prints on the reverse side of the cloth, which is left to dry and subsequently treated with a urea solution, initiating the growth of crystalline formations.

This alchemical process transforms intimate bodily traces into jewel-like surfaces, activating an unpredictable interplay between organic fluids, time, and mineral crystallisation. As the cloth becomes a living tableau—fragile, porous, and in constant mutation—the bodily and vegetal impressions on one side coexist with, and press against, the cartographies of contemporary violence on the other. Substances branded as waste erupt into radiant matter, asserting a new logic of value, togetherness and vitality: a force capable of undoing the economies of war, ecocide, and exploitation.

Presented alongside an incantation in the k48-vitrine and other monoprints made with what Risba terms “life matters,” Tableau Vivant situates the work within Risba’s ongoing practice exploring the body as a site of vital force and transformation.

Jatun Risba is a Slovenian transmedia artist whose work engages with ecofeminist and posthumanist discourses through performance art, conceptual art, relational art and practices of abjection, détournement and art intervention. Their practice cultivates reciprocity between species by altering & awakening sensory awareness through Vajrayana Buddhist practices and deviant uses of technology. Their research explores the vital significance, artistic and alchemic potential of chosen vibrant matter like chlorophyll, menstrual blood, urine, CSF. Their practice evolves along two main trajectories: Arts for Health and Art as Nutrition. Informed by their lived experience of radical self-healing from Multiple Sclerosis (2012–2019), Risba’s art unfolds as both experimental inquiry and transformative practice. They hold a BA (Hons) Degree from NABA, Milan and a PGC in Art & Science from Central Saint Martins – UAL.