Agata Ingarden | À l'oeuvre 2020
Agata Ingarden graduated from the École des Beaux Arts de Paris and studied at The Cooper Union, New York (2016).
Her practice revolves around investigations in the fields of humanities, science fiction and mythical narratives. She works with multiple mediums, including installation, sculpture and video. She has exhibited in institutions and galleries in Europe and the United States including Kunstlerhaus in Vienna (2020), Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden (2020), Parc Saint-Leger (2020), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2019), Mo.Co Montpellier Contemporain (2019) and the Frac Ile-de-France / Le Plateau, (Paris 2019).
Transcript
I think I am trying to create narratives from realities that surround me. As if the edge or like a line of an everyday object could be a threshold to a parallel world.
I concentrate on intrinsic properties of materials and the meaning, or symbolics we give them. For me, it’s like a journey through materialism, fiction and science-fiction that I somehow place in the domestic world.
My idea for the project was to develop the figure of a rescue dummy and a rescue dummy is a human-like shell that we fill with water and we use to train to rescue people from drowning.
So the shell allows me to think about relations to others, the capacity to project ourselves outside of ourselves: the empathy.
Formerly, I concentrated myself on the idea of the mold - as if I could imagine that this membrane could be extended.
By this extension, the form appears only by its negative.
The element of the mushroom for me is another portal: a portal to vitality and transformation from live to death and death to live.
Looking at nature, biological processes and chemistry are ways to analyse the world in a sense.