Neringa Černiauskaitė and Ugnius Gelguda, known as Pakui Hardware, are an artistic duo from Lithuania, and are currently presenting their new kinetic sculptures in Warsaw. Made of steel, glass, silicone, and elastic fabric, their creations move at a steady pace, creating an impression of autonomous beings.

Bataille draws our attention to the fact that we are light. This idea is further developed by Viktor Frankl, who points to its transformative power: ‘What is to give light must endure burning’. We take this as an invitation to enter another dimension of life – an encounter with the heart. We see the heart as our inner sun: as a source of strength, love and light, but also as a force that orders and burns.

They met as students and graduates of the Lodz Film School. For those young artists, film and photography were not merely tools for capturing reality – they were a way of thinking about it. Interested in more than what the image presented, they also looked into the creative process behind it, the mechanisms that governed it, and its limits. From joint experiments conducted in the early 1970s, they went on to establish the Workshop of the Film Form. Fascinated with the language of the visual arts, they explored its structure, perception mechanisms, and communicative potential, ultimately exerting a decisive influence on its development at the time.

Andrea Fraser (b. 1965), lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She is a professor in the Department of Art in the School of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is one of the most influential and provocative artists of her generation. Since the mid-1980s, her groundbreaking work in the field of institutional critique has explored the social, financial and affective economics of the organisation of the art world, its various disciplines and groups.