Ernest Borowski
CV
Matecznik / Covert (2023)
3D animations, sound composition / voice, 6’22’’
music collaboration / realization: Zosia Hołubowska
Ernest Borowski, using the tools of SF (speculative fabulation, speculative feminism, science fiction and scientific fact), projects a vision of a world standing at the threshold of the
complete disintegration of the organization of life and systems as we know it. A world in which the capitalist organization of life based on (over)production is no longer relevant. On the other
hand, the same story can also be read as completely irrelevant to (future) time, giving us a glimpse into the changes of co-sensibility happening beyond our sight. In his artistic practice, Borowski often refers to queer ecologies, exploring the connections between nature, biology and sexuality and queer theory. One of the backbones of „Matecznik” is a song prepared in collaboration with Zosia Holubowska / Mala Herba,
which features themes of labor critique (in the economic sense), queer intimacy and interspecies tenderness as elements of a radical speculative vision of the future. (...) The visual layer of „Matecznik” consists of a series of virtual micro landscapes populated by more-than-human beings - representations of existing and non-existing species. Borowski inscribes them in the architecture of the Arsenal Gallery power plant from before the renovation, treating it as a source of memory, altered data, from which, although a trace remains, it is hidden.
view from the exhibition Planetary Consciousness: New Realities / Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, PL