Agnieszka Polska,
Flowers on the Sun

at M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
September 21, 2024 – January 12, 2025

A solo exhibition by Agnieszka Polska, Flowers on the Sun, is currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art M HKA in Antwerp, showcasing a selection of the artist’s latest works. Based on speculative scenarios combined with elements of science fiction, the exhibition highlights issues related to the relationship between humans, non-humans, and technology, posing questions about the perception of time and history. The film The Book of Flowers (2023), presented as part of the exhibition, depicts an alternative history of the coexistence between humans and plants, created with the use of artificial intelligence. Meanwhile, the film The New Sun (2020) features a monologue by an anthropomorphized Sun, narrating the story of a collapsing world.

Agnieszka Polska, Eclipse 4 from the Braudel’s Clock series, 2023, Chromalux print on aluminium, UV print on acrylglass, rotating aluminium and steel clock mechanism

The exhibition also features Agnieszka Polska’s work from the dela.art collection.
Eclipse 4 from 2023 is part of the Braudel’s Clock series, in which the artist reflects on the idea of unified time as a social construct. The title of the series refers to the concept of Fernand Braudel, a French historian who perceived the world as a complex set of structures evolving at various speeds. Additionally, the Braudel’s Clock series references the concept of the Doomsday Clock – a symbolic clock counting down to human-made global catastrophe, maintained since 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the University of Chicago.

Curator: Joanna Zielińska
exhibition view, phot. by Ben Van Den Berghe, courtesy of the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen

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