Barbara Gryka and Agata Konarska

Barbara Gryka, a young artist from the village of Końskowola (Poland), was born in April 1992. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Faculty of Media Art. In 2019, she graduated from the Studio of Spatial Activities of Mirosław Bałka. She is studying for a doctorate at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, in the Studio of Sound Action Space of Katarzyna Krakowiak. In her practice, she deals with performative activities. Her work deals with people, and not necessarily those who deal with art. Her mother Beata taught her these skills. Her favourite activity is talking, she also likes to observe other people, their behaviours, and lifestyles. In ‘Architecture from within’, she visited her neighbours in the LSM district in Lublin. She knocked on their doors and asked for an interview. She plans to continue visiting modernist Polish housing estates. In ‘The Motorcycle Dance’, she led a group of 8 men on motorcycles dancing the Lublin folk dance.

Areas of interest: folklore, spending time together, history, social and political affairs, boredom as a time to relax, tik-tok.

Agata Konarska was born in 1995 in Poland. Her artistic activities are based on the use of various media, such as video, sound and performance, with the help of which she creates interactive situations and creates virtual realities. In her activities, she touches the subject of religiosity, oscillating between the sacred and the profane. She explores the phenomenon of woman iconicity, looking for the anthropological origins of matriarchy and its references in the Anthropocene era. She often uses political, geological and animal motifs. Furthermore, she is fascinated by modern myths and rituals, as well as the coming apocalypse. She notoriously dreams about animal hybrids and the spaciousness of architecture.