August 19, 2021 – September 1, 2021
On Screen Specials is a programme where invited artists previously exhibited by the Roberts Institute of Art or featured in the David and Indrė Roberts Collection select and introduce a moving image work from a fellow artist, friend or peer that they have been inspired by.
Film ScreeningCathie Pilkington Selects
Agnieszka Szczotka Just because your chicken dances upon impact it doesn’t mean it is still alive .
Agnieszka Szczotka
Agnieszka Szczotka’s practice draws on references as disparate as the Catholic Imaginarium, feminist avant-garde, self-portraiture, pop songs and psychology, as a means to examine the role of the unreliable narrator. Interweaving personal narratives, historical events and various modes of knowledge production Szczotka embodies a vast cast of personas that inhabit her performances, videos, photographs and texts. Embracing dark humour, affect and repetition she questions individual and collective memory as a means to challenge received knowledge and exorcize the past.