18.09 - 16.11.2025
Agnieszka Mastalerz | Mould | WGW+
Agnieszka Mastalerz invites viewers to feel the pulse of matter: from choreographed bodies to molten magnesium, everything in her newest exhibition interweaves and overlaps, endlessly reborn into new forms. The artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in Poland presents two new video works – “Mould” and “ Ὁδός “– connected by themes of movement, expression, and the creative process. | Exhibition for Warsaw Gallery Weekend + 2025 | Curated by Krzysztof Miękus.
Address: Fort Institute of Photography Gallery, Fort Mokotów, 6 Wł. Szpilmana Street, Building 4, Warsaw
Opening: September 18, 2025 | Thursday | 7:00 PM
Opening hours:
As part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend + (September 19-21, 2025)
open daily, 11:00 AM -7:00 PM.
From September 22 to November 16, 2025:
Wednesday – Friday 2:00–6:00 PM; Saturday – Sunday 12:00–6:00 PM
Admission: free
Body and machine, movement and stillness, breath and mechanical rhythm. In her newest exhibition, Agnieszka Mastalerz invites viewers to feel the pulse of matter. From choreographed bodies to molten magnesium, everything interweaves and overlaps, endlessly reborn into new forms, repeating and multiplying itself.
The exhibition Mould opens on September 18, 2025 at the Fort Institute of Photography as part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend+. Curator: Krzysztof Miękus
At Fort, Mastalerz presents two premiere video works, Mould and Ὁδός, which revolve around the idea of vitality, staging encounters between the human body and the choreography of machines, where organic rhythm meets mechanical cadence. Mould, a 35mm film projected by a 300-kilogram analog machine – rattling and monumental – becomes both image and object, a sculptural form resonating with the pulsing rhythm of the film itself. In parallel, Ὁδός transports viewers into the space of inorganic transformation — metallic alloys, thermal energy, and a paradoxical vitality.
This is an exhibition to be experienced – a play of illusions and questions, where physical perception becomes a guide through the works. As curator Krzysztof Miękus notes, the analog film itself is a perceptual trick enabled by the Latham loop mechanism: frames are replaced so quickly that their boundaries dissolve, creating a sense of continuity.
The starting point for these works was the figure of Danuta Kwapiszewska (1922–1999) — a choreographer and dancer who, after an accident, was forced to end her stage career and redirected her creative expression toward figurative sculpture. Forty years after her exhibition My Sculptures Dance for Me at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Mastalerz revisits the theme of the transformation of both creative and vital energy.
Exhibition presented as part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend +. More about WGW 2025 here
"Mould" Agnieszka Mastalerz
Curator: Krzysztof Miękus
Partner: Eidotech Polska, La Squadra
Supported by: White Stone Development, Fort Mokotów
The project "Mould" was financed by the Young Poland Scholarship for 2024.
CURATORIAL TEXT
by Krzysztof Miękus
Two long takes. Their duration is limited by the length of the 35mm film strip.
In the first take, the dancer is alone. The camera moves in a circle, the lens gradually pulling away from the figure until it finally reveals a wide shot.
In the second take, a new person appears. Her body is moulded by the first dancer. The camera continues to move in a circle, but this time it begins with a wide shot and ends by focusing on the details of their bodies and movement.
And a loop. Circular movement, zooming in, zooming out, inhalation, exhalation, repetition.
The film is looped. Not a digital file, but a physical, analogue film on 35mm celluloid. The strip seems to move continuously, but that is an illusion.
CREDITS AND SPECIAL THANKS
Mould
Director: Agnieszka Mastalerz
Director of Photography: Marcin Gołąb
Second Director: Kuba Gryżewski
Choreography & Performer I: Adrianna Mrowiec
Performer II: Agnieszka Janosz
Production Company: Papaya Films
Executive Producers: Sebastian Jurczek, Tomasz Skrodzki
Producer: Małgorzata Kozieł
Production Assistant: Zofia Kszczotek
Focus Puller: Tomasz Czerwiński
2nd AC/Loader: Kuba Żukowski
Grip: Piotr Wicik, Adrian Kubicki, Marek Rumak
Gaffer: Grzesiek Strzelecki
Lighting Technicians: Kamil Gajewski, Artur Nowak
Set Rigging: Mikołaj Miłkowski
Costumes: Monika Tomczak
Make-up: Aneta Paciorek
PJM Interpreters: Magdalena Schromova, Elżbieta Żurawska
Stills: Oliwia Zając
Camera Equipment: Panavision
Lighting Equipment: Heliograf
Studio: Transcolor Lucjan Siwczyk
On-Set Sound: Alex Banaszkiewicz
Sound Post-Production: Natalia Ptak (ptakova)
Post-Production: BlackPhoton (Kamil Rutkowski, Michał Krajewski, Maciej Mika, Andrzej Hajdaniak)
Post-Producer: Zosia Krajewska
Conforming: Bartłomiej Kuszpit
Color Grading: Hania Rudkiewicz
VFX: Julinna Lachowicz-Wróbel, Iwona Borucka
Mastering: Iwona Borucka
Film Stock: Piotr Karniewicz, Kodak Polska Sp. z o.o.
Film Processing & Scanning: Film Laboratory / WFDiF
Film Output: Cinelab Bucharest
Historical Consultation on Danuta Kwapiszewska: Marta Zaborowska / Fryderyk Chopin Institute
Special thanks to Tomek Kozera / RIOTS Film
Project "Mould" realized as part of the Młoda Polska scholarship program, financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage
Ὁδός
Director & Editor: Agnieszka Mastalerz
Director of Photography & Color Grading: Marcin Gołąb