The Fragiles
The sound piece of The Fragiles is based on a fragmentary science fiction narrative set in a world characterized by isolation, social inequality, and migration due to both climate and economy. From an apocalyptic future, the narrator looks back at the foundations on which this time is built. Kapusta speculates on the technologies of control, data collection, and the manipulation of interests, preferences, and desires, and allows temporalities to collide. Entanglements between technology and ideology, between politics and built space, between digitality and sociability become apparent.
Barbara Kapusta
Barbara Kapusta
*1983 Vienna, lives in Vienna
uses as a central, recurring element in her practice the connection of the body with materiality and language.
Her objects, films, performances, and text-based works have been shown most recently at Gianni Manhattan, Vienna; ACF London, London; Kunstraum London, London; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Vis Hamburg, Hamburg; Ashley Berlin, Berlin; KUP, Athens; 21er Haus Vienna, Vienna; Beautiful Gallery, Chicago; and the mumok cinema, Vienna, among others.
Her most recent publication, Dangerous Bodies, is forthcoming in 2019 from Gianni Manhattan Vienna and Motto Books, Lausanne, Berlin.