Angelika MARKUL

Born in Poland in 1977, Angelika Markul began her career after studying cinema, interior architecture and design, then completed her EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND 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. It questions our relationship to nature, the universe, time, and explores the history of ancestral territories. By bringing forth the memories of vanished civilizations, it also casts a political gaze on places where catastrophes have occurred (Fukushima, Chernobyl, etc.).

Private Choice presents its Tchouri coffee table at its 2023 edition. In her film Memory of Glaciers (2019), Angelika Markul shows images of the planet Tchouryumov-Gerasimenko, known as Tchouri, a frozen celestial body considered a fossil from the formation of the solar system. Scientists believe that its organic grains may have been at the origin of life on Earth. Fascinated by this story, Angelika Markul photographed a detail of a 3D model of the comet, offered by researchers at the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (National Center for Space Studies) to, in turn, crystallize a fragment of the celestial body in bronze. The top of this coffee table rests on three legs; its satin black patina is as if sculpted by the artist. The smoothed but animated surface with reliefs creates a poetic landscape, an invitation to travel through time.

Presentation taken from the text by Pascale Le Thorel for ColAAb.