Press Release Angelika Markul WHAT IS LOST IS AT THE

Press Release
Angelika Markul
WHAT IS LOST IS AT THE BEGINNING
Opening: 24 March 2016 (Thursday) at 7:00 p.m.
On view until 31 July 2016.
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The exhibition of Angelika Markul touches on the desire of immersion, on the extraction of
what is hidden in the depths, reaching the sources. However, the source or the beginning is
always lost. Exploring, therefore, means plunging into uncertainty, but at the same time,
immersion into that which is unrecognizable or oblivious to us. The answer to the emerging
uncertainty usually arises in the form of a phantasm or myth. Instead of hasty attempts to fill
or compensate for the loss, the artist suggests exactly the opposite. She proposes to stop on
the threshold, to immerse oneself in the uncertainty and to commence a certain game.
Angelika Markul focuses on places or situations in which what might be called “liminal
phenomena” manifest. Some of them only have trace potency, but others exceed the moment
of extreme or are suspended in a pending state. In the “What is lost is at the beginning”
exhibition the artist explores The Yonaguni Monument in Japan, scientific observatory in the
Atacama Desert in Chile, cave in the Mexican Naica Mine.
Historical settlements, geological creations or technological devices become Markul’s
resources for her own unique aesthetical exploitation. By strengthening ambiguity,
vacillations or distortions, the artist extracts from them a sensory experience, and then shares
it with viewers. Arranged in spatial sequences, Markul’s monumental installations become a
medium for conveying stories about the desire to explore, which is driven by what was lost in
the beginning—a certainty that knowledge will be acquired.
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
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Angelika Markul – b. 1977, a graduate of the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris, with a
diploma in Christian Boltanski’s multimedia studio. Since 1997, she has been permanently
living and working in Paris. In Poland, her art has been displayed in, amongst others, the
Foksal Gallery, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, and the Bunker of Art in Kraków. In 2014 Markul had
a solo show Terre de départ at the Palais de Tokyo.
Curator: Jarosław Lubiak
Coordination: Patrycja Rómmel
Contact:
Alicja Latkowska / [email protected] / 500 198 274 / 22 628 12 71-73 wew. 124
www.csw.art.pl
The video If the hours were already counted originated thanks to the support of Naica Project.
Project Partner: REGENT Warsaw Hotel
CCA Media Patrons: Gazeta Wyborcza, Wyborcza.pl Warszawa, Gazeta Co Jest Grane, TOK FM,
ELLE, ELLE DECORATION, Esquire Polska, Aktivist, artinfo.pl, Stolica
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
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