Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Ancestors

Agnieszka Brzeżańska, Ancestors

Installation of a sculptural work from Agnieszka Brzeżańska's Ancestors series in Park Wielkopolski, located in the Ochota district of Warsaw. Ancestors is the artist's most recent body of work, initiated during an artist residency on the Italian island of Stromboli. The sculptures take the form of amoeboid beings with an indeterminate number of limbs and heads. They evoke enlarged microscopic images of archaea and the hydrocarbon skeletons that have rested on the ocean floor for hundreds of millions of years. The organic flow embodied in the fluid forms of the Ancestors feels strangely familiar, drawing on narratives and life forms that long predate humanity. Biomarkers enable paleobiologists, biochemists, and archaeologists to reconstruct the composition of Earth's earliest microbial ecosystems, providing insight into the origins of life itself. Inspired by these discoveries, the sculptures emerge as organic structures shaped by natural processes. Park Wielkopolski, the proposed site for the installation, is a rare pocket of biodiversity in the heart of Warsaw. This urban micro-reserve provides an important habitat and breeding ground for numerous species of birds, hedgehogs, and other wildlife, creating a meaningful dialogue between Brzeżańska's biomorphic sculptures and the living ecosystem that surrounds them.

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