Dip your ankles in a melting maze, see dragon scales rise to the surface, hear the prayers of the twin flames. The exhibition consists of works by artists Agata Lankamer and Agata Konarska.
Ultimate View is an exhibition of two collaborating artists. Agatas will present projects of master's diplomas (ASP Warsaw) dealing with the subject of apocalypse and utopia in reference to biblical representations and futuristic visions of the future.
Agata Lankamer's Twin Flames is about the search for alternative and speculative visions of the future, possible social utopias or the individual concept of paradise. It refers to issues oscillating and balancing between utopia and dystopia. It is a creation of a cosmic paradise, a desert island where clone angels - karmic twins, end up. Esoteric Twin Flames in previous incarnations were one soul that was divided into parts embodying egalitarianism on the one hand and strange loneliness on the other. The work is referring to the paradise scenes of the first humans - Adam and Eve - here reversed, shows the life of the latter, evoking a post-apocalyptic vision of a climate catastrophe. The glacier here is a deity, a fuse, a reservoir. Angels are an alternative figure, as Umberto Eco says, someone "a kind of animal and solitary Adam who does not yet know what sexual intercourse, the pleasure of conversation, the love of children, the pain of losing someone loved is" […]
“And as Aristotle observed already two and a half thousand years ago, only angels and animals can survive outside the polis - that is, outside the circle of intercourse with other people. Man is not an angel, and he will not agree to be an animal. To be human without the company of other human beings is, to put it bluntly, a self-contradiction.” Zygmunt Bauman, Retrotopia
Agata Konarska's Thronus Gratiae is an interactive virtual experience that in its form refers to maze and fighting game computer games. The person participating in the experience moves through a virtual labyrinth, meeting mythical animals absorbing their own genesis and those dreamed up, materializing in our unconscious. At the end of the game, he becomes part of the eternal feud between the Extinction Priest and the Anti-Human. The combatants' bodies are covered with artificial intelligence tattoos that, as trophies or healing marks, represent animals that have played a significant role in the hegemonic spectacle of humanistic madness. The sound narration is constantly coming from the lips of St. Margaret and St. Agata, taking the form of a prayer, creates an audible background for the oranta exploring virtual reality. The work touches upon the themes of biodiversity and the expansive relationship of man to nature.
About artits:
Agata Lankamer was born in 1994 in Poland. Graduate of painting at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław and media art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She creates using various media like video, performative actions, installations, objects or painting. She is interested in multiple motif of liquid reality: feminism and the manifestations of inequality and violence in mass culture. Currently, the artist is interested in types of utopias, speculative visions of the future and herself. She is a co-creator of artist-run Relax art space, JEST gallery and part of an artistic duo of Women Antennas.
Agata Konarska was born in 1995. A graduate of Intermedia Faculty at the University of Fine Art in Poznań (2018). Her artistic activities are based on the various media, such as video, sound and performance, with which she creates interactive situations and virtual realities. In her activities, she takes up the subject of religiosity, oscillating between the sacred and the profane. She explores the phenomenon of woman iconicity, looking for the anthropological origins of matriarchy and its references in the Anthropocene era. She often uses political, geological and animal themes. Furthermore, she is fascinated by modern myths and rituals, as well as the coming apocalypse.
Vernissage 10 March 2023 15:00 - 21:00
Finissage 11 March 2023 12:00 - 18:00