Mould

Instytut Fotografii Fort

19.09.2025 - 16.11.2025
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    Agnieszka Mastalerz, from the artist's archive, 2025
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    Agnieszka Mastalerz, Ὁδός (4), photograph, 2025
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    Agnieszka Mastalerz, Mould, video still (I), 2025 
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Body and machine, movement and stillness, breath and mechanical rhythm. In her newest exhibition, Agnieszka Mastalerz invites viewers to feel the pulse of matter. From choreographed bodies to molten magnesium, everything interweaves and overlaps, endlessly reborn into new forms, repeating and multiplying itself.

At Fort, Mastalerz presents two premiere video works, Mould and Ὁδός, which revolve around the idea of vitality, staging encounters between the human body and the choreography of machines, where organic rhythm meets mechanical cadence. Mould, a 35mm film projected by a 300-kilogram analog machine – rattling and monumental – becomes both image and object, a sculptural form resonating with the pulsing rhythm of the film itself. In parallel, Ὁδός transports viewers into the space of inorganic transformation — metallic alloys, thermal energy, and a paradoxical vitality.

This is an exhibition to be experienced – a play of illusions and questions, where physical perception becomes a guide through the works. As curator Krzysztof Miękus notes, the analog film itself is a perceptual trick enabled by the Latham loop mechanism: frames are replaced so quickly that their boundaries dissolve, creating a sense of continuity.

The starting point for these works was the figure of Danuta Kwapiszewska (1922–1999) — a choreographer and dancer who, after an accident, was forced to end her stage career and redirected her creative expression toward figurative sculpture. Forty years after her exhibition My Sculptures Dance for Me at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Mastalerz revisits the theme of the transformation of both creative and vital energy.

Forma marks Agnieszka Mastalerz’s first institutional solo exhibition in Poland. 

Instytut Fotografii Fort

Szpilmana 6/ Budynek 4 / Fort Mokotów

Warszawa

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