Agnieszka Polska

Beschrijving

Tent. Berlijn, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, 27-09-2018, 03-03-2019. - Monografie toont stills van de videoinstallaties van de Poolse kunstenares Agnieszka Polska. - In her multi-channel video installation Polska combines real film material with animated sequences. The starting point of the work are letters from the 15th century written by Polish salt mines manager Mikolaj Serafin, who ran the pit like an autonomous, early capitalist company within the feudal social system.In her installation, Polska tells the fictional story of the postman who delivers Serafin's letters. One day he experiences a revelation in the woods while on his rounds, which offers an apocalyptic vision of the future