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Tractora Koop is thrilled to invite you to the opening of Mute Track, an exhibition by artist Bianca Hlywa, on Saturday, September 20, 2025, starting at 12:00 p.m. at ATOI: Calle Iparragirre 66, Bilbao.
We first got to know the work of Bianca Hlywa, a Canadian artist based in London, in 2019, before the pandemic and even before we opened ATOI. Bianca was already at that time working with SCOBY—an acronym for Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast—commonly known as kombucha fungus, a probiotic drink that has become popular in the West in recent years. SCOBY grows as an air-liquid interface, a cellulose-structured film in which microorganisms, bacteria, and yeasts coexist and work together to ferment sweet tea and sugar.
Bianca grows and manipulates SCOBY on a large scale, a formal operation that poses a perceptual, aesthetic challenge. As the SCOBY grows, the first film becomes thicker and transforms into a gelatinous, beige-colored, thick mic…
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Tractora Koop is thrilled to invite you to the opening of Mute Track, an exhibition by artist Bianca Hlywa, on Saturday, September 20, 2025, starting at 12:00 p.m. at ATOI: Calle Iparragirre 66, Bilbao.
We first got to know the work of Bianca Hlywa, a Canadian artist based in London, in 2019, before the pandemic and even before we opened ATOI. Bianca was already at that time working with SCOBY—an acronym for Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast—commonly known as kombucha fungus, a probiotic drink that has become popular in the West in recent years. SCOBY grows as an air-liquid interface, a cellulose-structured film in which microorganisms, bacteria, and yeasts coexist and work together to ferment sweet tea and sugar.
Bianca grows and manipulates SCOBY on a large scale, a formal operation that poses a perceptual, aesthetic challenge. As the SCOBY grows, the first film becomes thicker and transforms into a gelatinous, beige-colored, thick mic…
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