The work of Agnieszka Polska feels like a hallucination. The renowned Polish video artist - whose work has been exhibited at Tate Modern, the MoMA and the Venice Biennale, among others - is known for her digitally manipulated images. Time and time again, she activates a critical consciousness with them, an individual responsibility when viewing in an era of post-truth and looming ecological catastrophes. In her work she mixes the natural and the technological, without regarding the two as being strictly separated.
At the invitation of the Portuguese BoCA Biennale, Polska is now creating her very first theatre performance. In The Talking Car she puts on stage a group of performers who are trying to find a way out of a vehicle that is driving too fast. A choir of live animated digital dolls accompanies them on their melancholy journey. Take our word for is: The Talking Car will be a trip which is as wild as it is poetic, and which takes the absurd very seriously indeed.