The Book of Flowers, 2023
HD animation, 9′40″
A short science-fiction film that combines Artificial Intelligence-powered animation with the 16 mm film pre-production, presents an alternative history to the human – plant ecology, where the floral species and humans for millennia existed in a close symbiosis.
Agnieszka Polska (b. 1985 in Lublin, Poland, based in Berlin) – a visual artist and a film director who uses computer-generated media to reflect on an individual and their social responsibility in the context of environments driven by the flow of information. Polska presented her works in international venues, including the New Museum and the MoMA in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London, Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. Her solo exhibitions were organised by Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Nottingham Contemporary, Saltzburger Kunstverein, among others. She also took part in the 57th Venice Biennale, 11th Gwangju Biennale, 19th and 24th Biennale of Sydney, 14th Shanghai Biennale and 13th Istanbul Biennial. In 2018 she was awarded the German Preis der Nationalgalerie.
photo: Adam Gutt
