PK 6 PACK PRESENTS
AGNIESZKA SZOSTEK
P.K: In your practice, what's the one thing that you wouldn’t do without?
A.S: One thing I wouldn’t do without in my art practice is to be fearless. Fearless against the emotions, the concept, the scale or materiality. I don’t like to think my art is from the beginning till the end calculated. I like when it’s drawn by emotions.
P.K: If you could Shapeshift, who or what you would become?
A.S: I would become someone between an architect and an actress. I think in this case it’s okay to be an artist.
P.K: You are an active young artist, in this instance the word ‘emerging’ comes in use. Do you think the label "emerging artist" is kind of bullshit? Do you resent it? Can you give us some interesting anecdotes about what it's like to be “emerging”?
A.S I don’t mind to be called an emerging artist. It’s like full of hope and future. A synonym for freedom, alter-nativity, flexibility, diversity, freshness, being young.
P.K: Give us some dark thoughts regarding the commercial art ecosystem.
A.S: The ecosystem of commercial art is mostly calculated by business. Either it is a compromise between the institutions or a dictatorship of one of these. It’s very often a compromise that art shouldn’t take.
P.K: Do you think it's important to harmonise the dualities or embrace the conflicts?
A.S: If you mean in politically it’s definitely important to harmonise dualities. Also as an artist you have to deal with dualities if you want to live and survive. But in art as a conflict territory itself, there is no place for pure harmony. There the conflict is as a igniter to embrace.
P.K: What can an artist do to stand out online in an image saturated world and connect with people who might be interested in their work?
A.S: No idea.
