Texte | Angelika Markul

A new Xanadu: Haunted House by Chiara Markov

According to Epicurus, death needn't be feared as it is a "loss of all sensibility1". As if carried away into a dreamless sleep, we thus cease to exist. For others, a new life, a new world, await us after our death. There are also some, who believe that the deceased continue to wander amongst the living.

Exhibition and Desire by Maria Brewińska

A warm autumn evening in the glow of an art gallery window whose pearly surface reflects the sky, trees and nearby buildings. A sheet of glass glowing pink, gold and green, depending on the angle. The way the gallery is set up makes it possible to see the exhibition from two angles, from the inside […]

Time machines by Jarosław Lubiak

One is under the impression that an abyss of time opens up right before our eyes, from which mysterious traces, terrifying relics and poignant images emerge. Alongside footprints of dinosaurs living 147 million years ago there are the remains of an animal that went extinct about 11,000 years ago or afterimages of a hundred-year-old photograph. […]

Czarownica by Marion Vasseur Raluy

“The old lady carries a basket of wild herbs and shoots that she has just gathered; it weighs heavy as time on her arm. Her footsteps on the path are the footsteps of her mother, of her grandmother, of her great-grandmother. She has been walking under these oak and pine trees for centuries, gathering wild […]

The End of Nature: Interview with Angelika Markul

Mylène Ferrand:Your work is not only structured around moving images it also manifests your interest in “planetary” research and existential metaphysics. Above and beyond the darkness frequently encountered in your work, recent pieces have gained in intensity and depth, as is the case, quite literally, in Yonaguni Area (2016). For this video, you filmed the underwater archaeological […]

Super 4 by Luc Boltanski

The Salt of the Earth A. History of Fission I Her lips moved and she said: “The Magic Mountain”, remembers Françoise, the wife of Stan Ulam, at a bend in the path. On seeing the Hill for the first time. A large sanatorium set in snow. Immaculate desert of salt vitrified by ice. The blessed […]

What is lost is at the beginning by Jaroslaw Lubiak

Rarely do we consciously participate in the creation of beginnings and there is nothing surprising in this – upon being born, we find the world already ready. When we experience reality, we are usually confronted with the result or continuation of a process – not with its beginning. However much we were to know about […]

Hearts of Stone by Florian Gaité

Hearts of Stone. From fantastical nature to biological minerality. I sensed that they contained within their immoveable mass, the entire range of possible material transformations, without excluding anything, not even sensitivity, intelligence or imagination. Roger Caillois, Le Fleuve Alphé, Paris, Gallimard, 1978. From ‘pictures of stones’ to ‘dreams of stones’, the mesmerising power of […]

From the Earth to the stars by Pascal Lièvre

This text exists only in French version La maison des arts de Malakoff existe dans un monde qui n’existe pas avec ou sans nous, un monde ou tous les objets du monde existeraient sauf le monde qu’il nous est impossible de pouvoir nous représenter dans son absoluité. Angelika Markul cherche toujours à transformer le lieu […]