Exhibition: 16/08–22/09/2023
Venue: Spectra Art Space, Starak Family Foundation, Bobrowiecka 6, Warsaw
Project curator: Ania Muszyńska
Project coordinator: Kama Kieremkampt
Trans-line is a computer program which, amongst other functions, calculates the likelihood of swapping lives with another person. Life in the program is defined within 21 areas crucial for human existence, such as relationships with others, place of dwelling, appearance, health, childhood traumas. Having completed a test, the program creates cyber equivalents of its users and saves their data. ‘Trans-line’, as Lach says: ‘enables one to think of oneself in an ideal way, without the things that bother us or that we don’t like about ourselves’. Moreover, the project has to do with the eternal, reappearing question: ‘what if I were someone else?’
As we can read on the Starak Family Foundation’s website: “SOON_ is a place for experiment, but also a test for young, debuting artists, born after 1980. Presented works, in form or in content, take into account specific character of the Spectra building or the role it plays. Using a concept of popular contemporary site-specific trend supports the development of art in places not designed for it, but temporarily adapted for this purpose. An important element of presented works, is to show the most significant socio-political issues and reflect the state of today’s young people interests. Through periodic shows, SOON_ will help to create a dynamic picture of actuality, here and now, from the perspective of the youngest generation of artists.”