Braudel’s Clock – Mountain Dew (2022) by Agnieszka PolskaNational Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMΣT)
Agnieska Polska (Lublin, Poland, 1985) creates dreamlike videos and installations that explore time, memory and history.
In the series of works Braudel’s Clock Polska refers to the French historian Fernand Braudel (1902-1985), leading figure of the Annales school of historiography, who advocated a fragmentary view of history and redefined the concept of historical time.
Braudel’s Clock – Eclipse 1 (2022) by Agnieszka PolskaNational Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMΣT)
In the familiar playful way that characterises her work, Polska refers here to the central interpretative schemes proposed and analysed by Braudel, rejecting the linear progression of history. Several layers of transparent images rotate in different speeds and directions.
This irregular rotation brings together different worlds, different scales and different phenomena in random short duration events.
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Story Author: Anny Malama, editor EMΣT
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