Angelika Markul

Born in Poland in 1977, Angelika Markul began her career after studying cinema, interior architecture and design, then completed her training at the Beaux-Arts de Paris in the Christian Boltanski studio. Graduating from the school in 2003, she now lives in Paris, where she creates video works, installations, sculptures and "everyday artworks" in association with ColAAB, the publishing house founded by Aurélie Sarallier.

Her work unfolds between art, science, fiction and memory. She questions our relationship with nature, the universe and time, and explores the history of ancestral territories. Bringing to light the memories of vanished civilizations, she also takes a political look at places where disasters have occurred (Fukushima, Chernobyl...).

Private Choice presents its coffee table at its 2023 edition Tchouri. In her film Mémoire des glaciers (2019), Angelika Markul shows images of the planet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, known as Chouri, an icy star considered to be a fossil from the formation of the solar system. Scientists believe that its organic grains could have been the origin of life on Earth. Fascinated by this story, Angelika Markul photographed a detail of a 3D model of the comet, donated by researchers at the Centre national d'études spatiales, to give birth in turn to crystallizing a fragment of the star in bronze. The top of this coffee table rests on three legs; its satin-black patina is as if sculpted by the artist. The smooth surface is animated by relief, creating a poetic landscape, a call to travel through time.

Presentation based on a text by Pascale Le Thorel for ColAAb.