Lotus Flower

artists:
Agata Lankamer
Laura Ociepa
Barbara Żłobińska
Mariusz Maślanka
curators: JEST group
Lotus Flower is a collection of three tactical energies.
One of these forces is Laura Ociepy's Escapade - gifs portraying representatives of the spiritual underground, individuals delving into esoteric knowledge and operating outside the mainstream culture. Within the realm of gifs, they perform gestures aimed at deconstructing the energy of the environment and reshaping it anew. In this eclectic world, anything is possible. A tai-chi sequence can be performed amidst hunted and taxidermied animals, the longevity-promising yoga disenchants an environment filled with attributes of armed conflict, and a neo-shamanic arrangement performed in a costume made of garbage transforms corporate space. Representatives' gestures, regardless of the place of reproduction, persist continuously, drawing viewers into a trance and creating a new ritual of reality transformation. In JEST, they will gain a new material form, swaying in the exhibition space, enabling the heroes of the Escapade to move.
The second force is the cave duo, Barbara Żłobińska and Mariusz Maślanka, who will create a kind of cultural mimicry, rediscovering the meanings of symbols entrenched in culture, reinterpreting them departing from their original - religious context, analyzing them in terms of contemporary philosophical and scientific currents. The mystical aura emanating from the presented objects is a product of rational methods of action; however, secular spirituality here does not rely on scientistic assumptions but leans towards ecology and new currents of natural philosophy.
Agata Lankamer's number three will be an attempt to combine elegance with wildness, the vitality of a shamaness with the spleen of a witch, all to cleanse the negative aura and reinterpret the taboo of the heroines' social status.
photo by Mariusz Maslanka