Angelika Markul

HUNTING FOR LOVE

13.09-31.10.2024

curator: Katarzyna Krysiak

• opening: 13.09 (Friday), 6:00 PM, Galeria Foksal

• concert: 28.09 (Saturday), 6:00 PM, SARP garden next to the gallery

'Nécessité' is a concert by Stefan Węgłowski featuring Pierre Emö and Wojciech Pusia, which is an accompanying event to the exhibition. More information about the concert coming soon!

free admission

Galeria Foksal

ul. Foksal 1/4

Warsaw

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:

Angelika Markul's exhibition is an interdisciplinary project combining visual arts, music, and elements of theater.

HUNTING FOR LOVE is a story about the search for feeling, the 'hunting' for love. As a continuation of the project 'O, Lay on me,' realized last year at the Leto gallery in Warsaw, it will be the second of three planned exhibitions in which the artist delves into the realm of emotions and feelings, exploring different phases of love, moving on the border of dreamlike fantasy. The project's finale will take place with the artist's exhibition at MAC VAL Val-de-Marne Contemporary Art Museum in Vitry-sur-Seine in 2026.

During the exhibition, the artist will transform the interior of Galeria Foksal into a theater, positioning the art audience in the role of spectators. In the space of the stage outlined by simple architectural frames, there will be a composition of wax, seemingly abstract sculptures, alluding to corporeality in a non-literal way. They will be presented against the backdrop of the artist's wax paintings inspired by landscapes from Japanese woodblock prints.

Markul will animate the stage using typically theatrical means, through which her sculptures will gain their own dynamics, creating a choreographic arrangement of the 'love hunt' scene, such as changing lights suggesting the changes of the day: dawn, the setting moon, and the rising sun. This 'performance' will be viewed by the audience from a certain distance, participating in the hunt from a safe distance while remaining somewhat hidden.

As with the exhibition 'O, Lay on me,' here too, the theatricality of the sculptural scene will be complemented by music composed specifically for this occasion by Wojciech Pusia, which will be played from a vinyl record during the exhibition.

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BIO

Angelika Markul – born in 1977, a visual artist, lives and works in Paris. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (ENSBA). The artist has developed an individual, distinctive visual language that she successfully translates into a wide range of media. In her work, she combines sculptures, paintings, films, and installations in a poetic and unsettling way, referring to the dangerous and unpredictable forces of nature unleashed by human actions. Her artistic practice is always rooted in an interest in unknown and dangerous places. By combining facts with fiction, and even with science fiction, her projects have taken her to the most remote places in the world (underwater monuments off the coast of Yonaguni, melting glaciers in Tierra del Fuego, the desolate Atacama Desert, contaminated Chernobyl, devastated tsunami-hit Fukushima). Often working with natural materials (wax, leather, felt, light), Markul illustrates the destructive forces that terrify and fascinate us, situating them beyond cultural categories of good and evil. Markul is the recipient of numerous awards: Prix MAIF (2017), Prix COAL (2016), SAM Art Project Prize (2013). She had her first exhibition in Poland at Galeria Foksal ('Sen Muchy,' 2006). She currently exhibits mainly abroad but regularly returns to Poland as well.