anja krakowski

Dos Domas. Video installation. Two cannel. 2019   A central element articulates the entire space. The figure of the horse associated with the double relationship between the wild and the domesticated, the colon and the colonized, brings us closer to the way in which historical events are today experienced in all their speed and excess of information creating a continuous conflict with the construction of a collective memory.   https://valenciaplaza.com/la-artistaanja-krakowski-inaugura-su-exposicion-enrambleta

RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW, RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THEN - the dog at quarter past three , Espai La Rambleta, Valencia, Spain, 2019             Concepts and ideas are travelers and yet current ideologies try to fix them. Frozen, in shape and under artistic pretext, they rise to glorify an event, a historical moment or a precise power. Under changing perspectives (of history, context or positioning) statues become an anachronisms of collective identities, revealing inequalities and asynchronies. [...] Right now [...] is conceived as an fictional essay   that explores the complicate relationship between memories, collective identities and foundational myths and with signs of fixation, in a time characterized by the apparent immediacy and its emphasis on the eternal here and now. Through accumulation of images, objects and layers of information, a narrative insists on its own contradicting nature, caught between the Borges's hypermnesi...