(25 Sep 2018) GERMANY ART
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Associated Press
Berlin, 25th September 2018
1. Various of "The Demon's Brain" installation by Agnieszka Polska, shown at the Hamburger Bahnhof gallery in Berlin
2. Various of Polska
3. SOUNDBITE: (English), Agnieszka Polska, artist
"I present a filmic work based around some historical facts but the story is fictional and there are some fictional characters. One of them is a demon which is somehow symbolising a contemporary mechanical intelligence."
4. Various of "The Demon's Brain" installation by Agnieszka Polska, shown at the Hamburger Bahnhof gallery in Berlin
5. SOUNDBITE: (English), Agnieszka Polska, artist
"I'm a video artist and film is my medium. This time for the first time I created a work that could also be understood as a sound work basically. The sound is very important in this work and I wanted to create this kind of a sound landscape that will surround the viewer. There are multiple sources of the sound in the space and depending on where the viewer is standing or sitting, the whole work sounds differently."
6. Various of "The Demon's Brain" installation by Agnieszka Polska, shown at the Hamburger Bahnhof gallery in Berlin
7. SOUNDBITE: (German), Udo Kittelmann, director of the National Gallery in Berlin and member of jury awarding prize to Polska
"I think that we picked Agnieszka Polska in the end because the way she makes movies - especially now like in this latest work when she mixes real film and visuals. She is asking really big questions of our contemporary era."
8. Various of "The Demon's Brain" installation by Agnieszka Polska, shown at the Hamburger Bahnhof gallery in Berlin
9. SOUNDBITE: (German), Udo Kittelmann, director of the National Gallery in Berlin and member of jury awarding prize to Polska
"I think what really makes the works by Agnieszka Polska stand out is that she puts a lot of emotion in to the work. And she transmits this emotion. And I think we are living through a time, for at least 15 years, when we ask how we can deal with the challenges of society. What is expected from us? What do we need to do? What is required from each and every person? And this is something that we in the jury though was a particularly significant part of her work."
10. Various of exterior Hamburger Bahnhof gallery in Berlin
LEADIN
An exhibition showing the work of the 2018 winner of the German "Prize of the National Gallery" is on show in Berlin.
The audio and video installation by Polish artist Agnieszka Polska immerses visitors in a medieval story shown on large screens - complete with a critique of contemporary society.
STORYLINE
Agnieszka Polska's award winning installation requires guests to step right into a movie.
Four large projections have been set up in the main hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof museum in Berlin, each showing different scenes from a medieval story set in Poland.
The work is called "The Demo's Brain" and it is the first major solo show by Agnieszka Polska, this year's winner of the prestigious "Prize of the German National Gallery."
"I present a film work based around some historical facts but the story is fictional and there are some fictional characters," says Polska.
"One of them is a demon which is somehow symbolising a contemporary mechanical intelligence."
The story centres on a collection of 15th-century letters addressed to the owner of Poland's salt mines.
The story follows the young man who has to deliver the letters by horseback.
She was competing against three other Berlin-based artists for the prize.
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