Perfect Lives / Popolna življenja

Agnieszka Polska
2019, Poland, 14'

It'a reflection of a 1990 control experiment that took place when a Galileo spacecraft was passing Earth on its way to Jupiter. In the experiment, scientists wanted to determine whether the data sent from Galileo will confirm the existence of life on Earth. (LOOP Barcelona)

Gre za premislek o kontrolnem eksperimentu iz leta 1990, ko je vesoljsko plovilo Galileo, na poti proti Jupitru, preletelo Zemljo. S tem poskusom so znanstveniki želeli ugotoviti, ali bodo podatki, ki jih je poslal Galileo, potrdili obstoj življenja na Zemlji. (LOOP Barcelona).

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Language: English
Recommended for children under the age of 14: No
Technique: Video-collage, editing of the layers of stock footage

Agnieszka Polska (b.1985, based in Berlin)

is a visual artist and a film director who uses computer-generated media to reflect on an individual and their social responsibility in the context of environments driven by the flow of information. Polska presented her works in international venues, including the New Museum and the MoMA in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London, Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. Her solo exhibitions were organised by Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Nottingham Contemporary, Saltzburger Kunstverein, among others. She also took part in the 57th Venice Biennale, 11th Gwangju Biennale, 19th and 24th Biennale of Sydney, 14th Shanghai Biennale and 13th Istanbul Biennial. In 2018 she was awarded the German Preis der Nationalgalerie