FrikiFish

 Przemek Branas

photos: Eva Carasol,

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CasCaDas ArtSpace

Partners:

SUN AND MOON,

back of the object: the head of an uroboros with an open mouth, with light coming out of it

SUN AND MOON,

light installation: papier mâché, concrete, electrical wires, two light bulbs

The UNIVERSE,

light installation: papier mâché, wire, electrical wires, three light bulbs 

I'm Looking At You,

light installation: papier mâché, wire, electrical wires, two light bulbs

details:

  individual elements of the installation are connected with aluminum wire and leaves of a dried plant Eryngium martynium

details:

the entire installation is placed on three large hands – gloves.

exhibition view: this yellow curtain is cotton dyed  and painted with bay leaves and turmeric.

LEMON MASK I and LEMON MASK II,

photographs documentation of performative actions on the beach. This is a disposable mask made of lemon peels. after use it rots, molds.

installation view:

210x220x90cm

additional obiects on the exhibition

curator: Michalina Sablik

In the latest installation, A Man Eating His Own Tail, Przemek Branas references the transcultural mythical figure of the Ouroboros. Associated with solar cults, the serpent became a symbol of infinity, eternal return, and the cyclical nature of time. This constantly devouring and regenerating mythical creature represented the eternity of matter and the concept of reconciling apparent opposites. However, it was also sometimes interpreted as a symbol of foolishness, going in circles, or irrational behavior.

Non-linear and magical thinking about time was the foundation of many indigenous and pre-Enlightenment epistemologies. Today, the figure of the Ouroboros reappears in the philosophy of Timothy Morton, who advocates replacing linear and rational thinking with complexity, looping, and ambiguities. Strangeness becomes the principle of the present. The hybrid form of the man-serpent is a model for all beings that are tragically intertwined with other, non-human existences and processes of varying scales. There is no escape from the loop, no emancipation or control over it. It’s time, then, to learn how to dance in circles.

A Man Eating His Own Tail

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