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Kuba Bąk, 'A Whole Other Level': Touristic, mythological, spiritual, heroic and artistic journeys into the depths of the underworld constantly serve to reinforce the connection between life and death. Blades cut out of metal, devoid of a hilt, strange weapons that hurt both perpetrator and victim, were sent into the guts of Earth. This telluric journey could be a tale of an escape from the eternally insatiable demon of the art world.
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Andrew Birk: ‘I am trying to figure out how to move through the burdens and privileges of society and culture and digitization and capital and entertainment, and come out the other side having made art that I can be proud of, that feels like time well spent, that equates somehow to a life well lived. We are alive only now. I know that that is so redundant, but it’s also so profoundly related to why art matters’.
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