Soon_

The SOON_ project space is located in the hall connecting the exhibition area with office corridors. Movement here follows working hours, and every day someone glances at a clock. Short Nap is an exhibition about dreaming of eternity.

 

The first part of the installation consists of a series of plaster reliefs. They tell a story about the attempt to stop time and the tension associated with the ways it is measured. The second part is an analogue video transmission monitoring an alarm clock placed beneath Sonno Grande, a sculpture by Igor Mitoraj. The artist refers to the impossibility of fulfilling the ideal represented by the sculptor. Carved in marble, sonno grande—loosely translated as “great sleep” or “magnificent dream”—is something unattainable for the contemporary human being, living at a relentless pace. The clock beneath the sculpture therefore functions as an unpleasant intrusion. The “magnificent sleep” of the sculpted figures is interrupted every day by the sound of an alarm clock.

 

Iga Niewiadomska (born 1994) is a visual artist working with relief, drawing, video, and performance. In her practice she uses symbolic gestures, and her works often take on a raw and poetic form. While creating objects, she seeks elegance in simple materials and refinement in incompleteness. She is a graduate of the Interdepartmental Studio of Activities led by Mirosław Bałka and Katarzyna Krakowiak-Bałka. She completed her MA diploma under the supervision of Wojciech Bąkowski at the Faculty of Media Art of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She has participated in exhibitions and performance projects including FRINGE Festival (2024), Crash Club Projects (2024), The Wrong Biennale (2023), and MPD + Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2023).