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Agnieszka Polska
Agnieszka Polska
The work of Polish artist Agnieszka Polska, winner of Germany's Preis der Nationalgalerie (National Gallery Prize), feels like a hallucination. Reflecting on issues such as natural and human disasters, it offers immersive experiences that stimulate individual and social critical consciousness in the age of post-truth.
In The Talking Car, her debut directing for the stage, Polska brings together a cast of Portuguese, Polish, and North-American performers. A small group tries to get out of a speeding car, while a large-scale digital puppet keeps them company, singing and following their struggle with affectionate curiosity. On their way to an uncertain fate, the characters try out different roles, genders and emotional states. An insistent score and hypnotic animations add to the melancholic of this immersive tale of a complex system of human and non-human agency.
14 SEP 2023
THU 21:00
15 SEP 2023
FRI 21:00
In English with subtitles in Portuguese.
Biography Agnieszka Polska
Agnieszka Polska was the 2017 winner of the National Gallery Prize in Berlin, Germany's most prestigious art prize, and represented Poland at the 57th Venice Biennale, curated by Christine Macel. The artist has held solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Centre Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg and Summerhall, Edinburgh, among others.
Her dreamlike, immersive and visually powerful films explore questions of time and memory, drawing out and examining the intricate relationships between various processes of influence, legitimation or exclusion in the fields of language, science and history. These have been exhibited at Tate Modern, MoMA, New Museum, Hamburger Banhof, 19th Biennale of Sydney, Berliner Festpiele, International Documentary Film Festival, Copenhagen, Institute of Contemporary Arts / Lux Biennial of Moving Image, London, Athens Biennale, BoCA, among others.
Commission and Production of BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts
Support
Text and direction
Agnieszka Polska
Translation to Portuguese
Joana Frazão
With
Albano Jerónimo, Iris Cayatte, Vera Mantero, Bartosz Bielenia, Aaron Ronelle
Voice over
Jamina Polak
Dramaturgy support
Olga Drygas
Music
Igor Klaczynski
Light design
Rui Monteiro
Video and sound
André Teixeira
Digital puppet animation
Jeremy Coubrough
Stage videos animation
Ewa Polska
Head of production
Hugo Alves Caroça
Commission and production
BoCA
Co-production
deSingel, Kampnagel, Nowy Teatr
Artistic residency
Goethe Institut
Presentation partner
Culturgest, Teatro das Figuras
