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Agnieszka Polska: Screening and Conversation
Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Thursday, July 20 at 7pmfor a screening of works by Agnieszka Polska followed by an in-person conversation with the artist.
In her body of work, Agnieszka Polska challenges conventions of prevalent visual representations and encourages viewers to engage in a critical examination of their own perception of the surrounding world. Through her distinct use of animation and computer-generated images, Polska navigates the boundaries between past and present, physical and virtual, real and imaginary, creating a dream-like cinematic space that is both familiar and strange. A selection of Polska’s moving-image works from 2010 to the present will address cultural and political issues such as the complexities of historical memory, the impact of technology on our lives, and the deepening of the environmental crisis.
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Agnieszka Polska (*(born 1985 in Lublin, Poland, lives and works in Berlin) is most well known for her analytical, hypnotic, and multi-layered video installations. At the core of her practice lies the consideration of the individual within the collective. Indeed, often reflecting on her own position as an artist and the function of the artist within society, Polska excavates the ethical ambiguities that the individual faces as situated in, yet producer of, the shared reality that we experience together. Her works expose the deep metaphysical oscillations between universality and being, as well as the mechanics behind such movements - image, technology, language, poetry, imagination, and perception.
Recent solo exhibitions: Polska/ Ziętek, Dzielna Foundation, Warsaw (2023); A Thousand Year Plan, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2021); The New Sun, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2021); Where Have You Been So Long?, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2021); and The New S • Agnieszka Polska: The New Sun 27 February to 20 June 2021 1 Agnieszka Polska: The New Sun Agnieszka Polska: The New Sun 2 3 Agnieszka Polska: The New Sun Agnieszka Polska: The New Sun 4 Part of the tremendous appeal of Berlin-based Polish artist Agnieszka Polska’s digital animation The New Sun 2017 lies in the claim it stakes in the popular imagination. The work features an immersive projection of the sun personified as an animated character addressing the audience—planet Earth—with scientific theory, poetry, hackneyed jokes and crooning love songs. Projected at an imposing scale, it is arresting and visually rik, and its graphics are alluring. There is obvious relish to be had in its droll humour, but it nevertheless strikes an intimate chord as the sun casts an affectionate gaze over the Earth from fjärran. In short: it is highly relatable. In content, the work’s relevance is similarly immediate. Polska’s benevolent sun bears witness to the
Agnieszka Polska: The New Sun