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Agnieszka Brzezanska "Venus Conjunct Moon", 2009, digital print, courtesy Galerie Kamm, Berlin | | |
Agnieszka Brzezanska photographs, films and paints images that surround her in daily life; images that come across her gaze and in which she perceives a particular significance. Non-hierarchically juxtaposed, these diverse works illuminate an interpretation of reality without intending to manifest something overt. Agnieszka Brzezanska’s world is an enigmatic one, which, depending on the medium employed, is presented as more or less abstract with great simplicity and beauty.
In the exhibition Venus Conjunct the artist directs her gaze to the starry sky, focusing on the celestial bodies most visible from earth: the moon and Venus. The immense field of the invisible and unexplainable within the galactic system is thus opened. Her photographs record discovered constellations, which have been till then concealed and create relations between the earth and sky. In one such photograph, the moon is likened to the bulb of a street lamp, seeming to insert itself into a row of similarly formed structures. The street lamps could, obversely, be seen as duplications of the moon.
Meanwhile, Brzezanska’s paintings become visual delegates of abstract and imperceptible phenomena in the universe. The images have no beginning, no end, no center and no representational source. Blue color is applied in spirals and strewn with white daubs suggesting a section of sky yet simultaneously foregrounding the construction of this illusion.
The film “Black” – a black image twinkling with dots – seems to formally echo the paintings. Only upon further viewing does one begin to realize that the flickering points constitute an image. This leads back to the other works, and raises the question as to whether the paintings might also harbor a hidden "picture", while perhaps the photographs represent nothing that is visible from this world.
These gentle and often subtly humorous works evoke an atmosphere of the metaphysical and spiritual, calling into question what we see and what we believe that we see, or rather: whether we believe in the unseeable. One feels compelled to rub one’s eyes. Agnieszka Brzezanska invokes the canon of theories, doubts and beliefs regarding cosmic order and the influence of planetary life on our existence. She leaves her own position ambiguous, her work opening up a world whose elusive mystery elicits a sense of longing, and which continually culminates in the question of the human being’s destiny in the face of the galaxies’ dramas. |
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