Animated Art by Agnieszka Polska
In short about Agnieszka Polska
Agnieszka Polska was born in 1985 in Lublin, Poland. She has a degree in graphic design from the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts. She started showing her works in Krakow in 2007. At present, she lives and works alternately between Warsaw and Berlin. Her first major exhibition outside of Poland was held in 2010 at the Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk in Germany. She has also participated in group exhibitions such as “Ain’t no sorry” at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw in 2008, “Breathless” in Vienna, Austria in 2009, “The Good Old Days” at Aarhus Kunstbygning, Denmark in 2010, or “The Forgetting of Proper Names” at the Calvert 22 Gallery, London in 2012. She recently participated in the 19th Bienale in Sydney (2014) and at the “Suspended Animation” exhibition at the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington (2016). She was among the 21 finalists for the Pinchuk Future Generation Prize in 2012.
What you can see in her works
Are you wondering how the past can be grasped? How to remember moments gone by? How to depict and valuate them? Agnieszka comes up with an answer to these questions by using nostalgia as a living critical resource, which serves to formulate the past and the feeling of the “past”, as an objective to depict an idealised version of time. Her work frequently features animation, video and photography. Her luxurious photographic and animated video works are based on the permanent return to the visual well of the past. The main sources of her video stories, which often fill the viewer with anxiety and confusion, are found photos, newspapers mainly from the interwar period, documents and forgotten visual architects, as well as ancient techniques and methods.
Luxury project: “I am the Mouth”
Her project I am the Mouth, a dreamy tableau of huge whispering lips party submerged in water, was included by curator Adam Budak into the cycle of luxury installations at the Poetry Passage, which you could have seen at the Trade Fair Palace in Prague. Agnieszka’s short animated video was inspired by Samuel Beckett’s theatre play Not I.
