Closed Gardens of Solitude
- The exhibition will feature two projects: Gardens of Solitude, a video installation by Agata Lankamer and Agata Konarska and Closed Gardens, a collection of sculptural objects by Adam Martyniak.
- In their work, the artists take on the figure of the incel as a modern escapee whose home are virtual worlds. An incel is a person considered to be part of the world of chauvinism, living with a sense of rejection by society and in (unwanted) celibacy. The artists examine the motivations of incels with empathy and without judgment. In the video installation they created, the audience visits an (anti-)utopian garden – a symbol of the incel’s fantasy and frustration, a place of his virtual loneliness.
- In turn, Adam Martyniak presents sculptural objects created with wheel tires made of petroleum-based materials. They look like plant organisms equipped with completely non-plant features and functions. In the project, the artist continues his research into dark ecology and the recultivation of materials.
- Agata Lankamer
- is a visual artist creating digital art, objects, and paintings. In her work, she explores sci-fi, cyberfeminism, anthropology of the future, manifestations of inequality, and the romanticization of violence in culture. She conducts artistic research on artificial intelligence in visual arts. She graduated in media art from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and painting in Wrocław. C-founder of the independent gallery JEST in Wrocław. She works as a duo with Agata Konarska as Kobiety Anteny.
- Agata Konarska
- is a multimedia artist. A graduate of the University of Arts in Poznań and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, she works with video, sound, and performance, creating interactive situations and virtual realities. She explores religious themes, the phenomenon of iconicity of women, and the anthropological origins of matriarchy and its references in the Anthropocene era. She is fascinated by contemporary myths and rituals, as well as the approaching apocalypse.
- Adam Martyniak
- is a visual artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Author of objects, installations, sculptures, paintings, videos, as well as more and less practical objects. Member of the artistic initiatives Wykwit and Swojskie Tropiki. He creates objects and installations from used tires and practices easel painting.
