Video loops inspired by Frank Stella's "Polish Village" series presented as a part of the exhibition "Frank Stella and Synagogues of Historic Poland" at POLIN museum in Warsaw in 2016.
The four animations allude directly to the successive stages of shaping relief forms by the American artist. Instead of focusing on solidified shapes, they bring out a dynamic quest, raising potentiality and probability to the rank of a finished work. Constantly evolving shapes create dynamic reliefs, which, in their essence, are a loose reference to the thinking of Henri Bergson who conceived of reality as a field of constant flux.
The synagogues that inspired Frank Stella only existed for a moment. Through the reliefs, their existence has been extended in a different form. The realm of ideas, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Its basic mode of existence is evolution, while movement is a manifestation of its vitality.
Curator - Artur Tanikowski | POLIN
Exhibition Coordinator - Ewa Witkowska | POLIN