Frieze 2022
Barbara Kapusta
Barbara Kapusta
For Frieze Focus 2022, GIANNI MANHATTAN is pleased to present Barbara Kapusta’s latest video installation “Solar”.
Four large screens mounted on video traverse systems focus on four giant techno-human figures which roam a dilapidated domestic environment and encounter traces of its destructive past. “Solar” is a dark Science Fiction combining video animation and wall text pieces.
It addresses the circularity of repetitive mistakes, the toxicity of neoliberal values and power relations inscribed in ruins and deserts of former architecture. If in the 3 channel video installation “The Leaking Bodies” (2020) it was the desert environment of extractive capitalism, in “Solar” it is the architecture and landscape of the single-family home and its politics that has become the main site.
Giant techno-human figures roam this dilapidated landscape and encounter the traces of its destructive past, the remains of private property, the family houses turned into ruins, the private gardens turned into deserts. Extractive neoliberal capitalism and fossil fuelled economy – once backbone of the patriarchal household here have led to its devastation.
“Solar” is a dystopian science fiction that raises the questions of a different future. One based on a different economy, one that is not reliant on an extractive and resource-consuming exploitation.
Four large screens mounted on video traverse systems focus on four giant techno-human figures which roam a dilapidated domestic environment and encounter traces of its destructive past. “Solar” is a dark Science Fiction combining video animation and wall text pieces.
It addresses the circularity of repetitive mistakes, the toxicity of neoliberal values and power relations inscribed in ruins and deserts of former architecture. If in the 3 channel video installation “The Leaking Bodies” (2020) it was the desert environment of extractive capitalism, in “Solar” it is the architecture and landscape of the single-family home and its politics that has become the main site.
Giant techno-human figures roam this dilapidated landscape and encounter the traces of its destructive past, the remains of private property, the family houses turned into ruins, the private gardens turned into deserts. Extractive neoliberal capitalism and fossil fuelled economy – once backbone of the patriarchal household here have led to its devastation.
“Solar” is a dystopian science fiction that raises the questions of a different future. One based on a different economy, one that is not reliant on an extractive and resource-consuming exploitation.
12.10.22—16.10.22
The Regent’s Park, London, UK
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For Frieze Focus 2022, GIANNI MANHATTAN is pleased to present Barbara Kapusta’s latest video installation “Solar”.
Four large screens mounted on video traverse systems focus on four giant techno-human figures which roam a dilapidated domestic environment and encounter traces of its destructive past. “Solar” is a dark Science Fiction combining video animation and wall text pieces.
It addresses the circularity of repetitive mistakes, the toxicity of neoliberal values and power relations inscribed in ruins and deserts of former architecture. If in the 3 channel video installation “The Leaking Bodies” (2020) it was the desert environment of extractive capitalism, in “Solar” it is the architecture and landscape of the single-family home and its politics that has become the main site.
Giant techno-human figures roam this dilapidated landscape and encounter the traces of its destructive past, the remains of private property, the family houses turned into ruins, the private gardens turned into deserts. Extractive neoliberal capitalism and fossil fuelled economy – once backbone of the patriarchal household here have led to its devastation.
“Solar” is a dystopian science fiction that raises the questions of a different future. One based on a different economy, one that is not reliant on an extractive and resource-consuming exploitation.
Four large screens mounted on video traverse systems focus on four giant techno-human figures which roam a dilapidated domestic environment and encounter traces of its destructive past. “Solar” is a dark Science Fiction combining video animation and wall text pieces.
It addresses the circularity of repetitive mistakes, the toxicity of neoliberal values and power relations inscribed in ruins and deserts of former architecture. If in the 3 channel video installation “The Leaking Bodies” (2020) it was the desert environment of extractive capitalism, in “Solar” it is the architecture and landscape of the single-family home and its politics that has become the main site.
Giant techno-human figures roam this dilapidated landscape and encounter the traces of its destructive past, the remains of private property, the family houses turned into ruins, the private gardens turned into deserts. Extractive neoliberal capitalism and fossil fuelled economy – once backbone of the patriarchal household here have led to its devastation.
“Solar” is a dystopian science fiction that raises the questions of a different future. One based on a different economy, one that is not reliant on an extractive and resource-consuming exploitation.
