Installation shot of How the Work is Done, 2011. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Zak, Branicka, Berlin. Photo by Andy Keate.
Installation shot of Future Days, 2013. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Zak, Branicka, Berlin. Photo by Andy Keate
Installation shot of I Am the Mouth II, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Zak, Branicka, Berlin. Photo by Andy Keate.
Installation shot of Watery Rhymes, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Zak, Branicka, Berlin. Photo by Andy Keate.
Agnieszka Polska, photo courtesy of Żak-Branicka Gallery, Berlin
“Agňešca Polsca’z drīmlîc vidioz xplor tîm n memri. Born in Pôḷnd, in 1985, ẇl it wz stl a comynist stêt, š z intrestd in fgotn histriz n culčṛl miʈs, ptklrli ɖoz v vaništ ātists.
Hr vidio Fyčrdez šoz ɖ imajind aftrlîf v a grūp v ātists hu hv diṣpird fṛm āthistri. It includz Li Lzano huz cnsepčl wrc Dsîd t Býcot Wimin led t hr cmplit wɖdrwl fṛm ɖ ātwrld, n Bos Yan Adr, a lejnd v cnsepčl āt, hu wz mistirı̣sli lost at sì. Polsca rīynîts ɖm wɖ ātists fṛm uɖr iyṛz in a bytifl suṃri aftrlîf, filmd on a Swīdiš îḷnd.
Polsca’z wrc z inflụnst bî hr rsrč in historicl ācîvz. Š siz an ācîv az a livñ ōġnizm ɖt z alîv n subjct t insesnt čenj. Ɖs mīns ɖt histri itslf z constntli misrimmbrd. It z imprfctli rcwdd, or riintrpṛtd aftr ṗlitcl čenj. Ɖr r sîc̣lojcl rīznz fr fgtñ tù, az aṇlîzd bî Sigmnd Frýd. Hr hlusineṭri vidioz fil in ɖ gaps, axidntl or dlibṛt, in Īstn Yṛpiyn āthistri.
Ɖ pês n hipnotc qoḷti v hr wrc z smtmz similr t ŌSMR, (Ōtoṇṃs Senṣri Mridịn Rspons) vidioz – a cult inṭnetfnoṃnn. Polsca invîts vywrz t hv a similrli medittv, imrsv rspons t hr wrc. Inflụnst bî ɖ ʈiatricl produẋn Nt I bî ɖ plêrît Samyl Becit, hr vidio I am ɖ Mâʈ II šoz an animetd red mâʈ, hāf-sbmrjd in trbyḷnt wōtr. Bêst on a sạntific dscripšn v sândwevz muvñ ʈru dfṛnt mtirı̣lz, ɖ mâʈ spīcs fr ɖ ātwrc.
I am ɖ Mâʈ z Agňešca Polsca’z frst mêjr sôlo xibišn in ɖ YC. Ɖ xibišn z ōġnîzd in pātnršp wɖ Culture.pl”
