Artist

 Agnieszka Polska

Born in Lublin, 1985 and lives in Warsaw, Poland

Agnieszka Polska creates video works employing mainly found material, such as archive photography and illustrations, which she subjects to subtle interventions, whether animating them or working them into the existing image. In the process, the artist changes their primary context, simultaneously creating illusions of documentation. She investigates the impact of documentation on its future reception. Her visually powerful explorations of lost times or half-forgotten figures of the Polish avant-garde, turn to how the past is fictionalised and re-worked. Her animated videos evoke a sense of melancholia, and a longing for something that perhaps never was, but which she makes real at least on film. In an interview with Art Review, Polska said that, “Slow, unnaturally calm movements are present in most of my videos. I mainly work with animated film so a meditative, contemplative quality is present also in the process of production, which is very important for me. Each project needs a lot of time and concentration (for viewer and maker)”.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
The End Of The World
On the occasion of its reopening, the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art presents the exhibition...
16 Oct 2016 - 19 Mar 2017
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci
Prato
Exhibitions
Paratoxic Paradoxes
The exhibition Paratoxic Paradoxes presents new works of moving imagethat explore this critical question...
23 Mar 2017 - 21 May 2017
The Benaki Museum
Athens
Exhibitions
Agnieszka Polska: The Demon’s Brain
The Demon’s Brain is the solo exhibition of the artist Agnieszka Polska, set up in the ambience of...
27 Sep 2018 - 03 Mar 2019
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart
Berlin
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