Obscene Carbon
We are excited to present new artworks by Agata Engelmann at this Fritz Session, which you will be able to view before the talk, and during the reception afterwards.
About the artist
Agata Engelman is a Polish-born conceptual artist, painter and researcher in contemporary philosophy and cultural studies. In her work, she explores the human-nature relationship and politics of nature conservation.
About the artworks
Obscene Carbon is Engelman’s new series of abstract paintings made using carbon powder. Carbon is a ubiquitous element, crucial to all forms of life. But with carbon dioxide, hard coal and lignite, and carbon sinks being some of the central notions in the debate on anthropogenic climate change, it is loaded with a number of contradicting meanings. It is both creation and death, powerful source of energy and progress, destruction, pollution and disease, trace of life that does not exist any more and substance to build new life. These large monochrome abstractions each have a title speculating on the origins and paths of the carbon particles before they became part of the painting.
