AGATA MADEJSKA:

AGATA MADEJSKA: GRAND HABITAT HORROR VACUI

12 January–22 March 2024 EXTENDED BY POPULAR DEMAND: SPECIAL OPENING HOURS THURSDAY–FRIDAY ONLY 12–6PM

Agata Madejska’s artwork explores the power structures inherent in language and speech. These explorations are often expressed as sound, sculpture and installation, alongside post-photographic processes. Informed by her personal history, of growing up in and migrating from post-communist Poland, Madejska has responded to the space at Flat Time House by expanding and overlaying these narratives with an exploration of the power dynamics of the domestic and intimate. The exhibition includes a series of site-specific interventions for the successive rooms of FTHo such as a padded leatherette floor, a smoke sculpture, spoken word sound piece and a large organza structure, each a specially commissioned artwork or environment. Grand Habitat Horror Vacui is the artist’s first UK institutional solo show.

With a background in photography, Madejska has increasingly pushed beyond the surface of the flat image, expanding into embedded and durational forms. This new body of work examines the parameters of value and revenue by looking at various ideologies of ownership, such as assets; natural and public resources; housing and infrastructure; the woman’s body as commodity; and the body politic at large. Through oblique critique of recent political debates, in Poland and internationally, Madejska scrutinises the structures of persuasion, be they myth or fable, propaganda or spam, gossip or speculation. For Grand Habitat Horror Vacui Madejska questions the articulation of power and how modes of address are used to assemble or disintegrate the public mood. 

2023

2022

BOYLE FAMILY

BOYLE FAMILY DIG

12–16 October

Exhibition open Wednesday–Sunday 12–6pm

And by appointment from 17 October to 1 November

email to book: [email protected]


To mark the upcoming publication of Untitled (1956) – Red, Green and Yellow – Gone Fishing on 1 November, Flat Time House will screen a rarely seen film documenting Dig, a 1966 event organised by Boyle Family under the name ‘The Institute of Contemporary Archaeology’. The site of the happening, a roped off section of a demolition site in Shepherds Bush, turned out to be the site of an ornamental garden statue factory. Thirty or so diggers in three hours excavated hundreds of broken statues, moulds and tools.

At FTHo examples of these excavated sculptures will be exhibited alongside footage of the original happening. For Mark Boyle "the view that anything that exists is part of the contemporary environment... an object is not unworthy of our interest because it happens to be old or damaged or picturesque."

2021

2020

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