PCAI is glad to announce that The National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavik presents in the exhibition Innocent Bodies two filmic works by PCAI collection artist Agnieszka Polska: Longing Gaze from 2021-2022 and The Book of Flowers from 2023.
The exhibition Innocent Bodies considers the vulnerability of contemporary existence at a time of radically shifting interrelationships between humans, technological systems, and the natural world. Polska is particularly attuned to the social science of affective economy: how unnatural forces and states of being reshape our bodily emotions, physiology, and consciousness.
Polska works at the intersection of ancient storytelling traditions and the currency of human experience, employing advanced image-making technologies, including filmmaking, video, photography, and animation. She frequently starts with found images, distorting and manipulating them, often with the use of AI technology. Ambient sound, music, and narration interlace with her poetic cinematic stories.
Agnieszka Polska was born in Lublin, Poland, in 1985. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally, including exhibitions at MoMA and the New Museum in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London, and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. She has had solo exhibitions at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, M HKA in Antwerp, Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Nottingham Contemporary, and Salzburger Kunstverein. She participated in the 57th Venice Biennale, 11th Gwangju Biennale, 19th and 24th Biennale of Sydney, 14th Shanghai Biennale, and 13th Istanbul Biennial. In 2017, she was awarded the Preis der Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Presently, she lives and works in Berlin.
Innocent Bodies: 25 Jan 2026 – 17 May 2026
Curator: Pari Stave
More information here.
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