30 Beats Per Minute

Artist: Olga Pawłowska

Curator: Robert Domżalski

Coordinator: Agnieszka Sachar

The human heart performs between 60 and 100 beats per minute. Each day provides new stimuli, which makes the rate of beats increase.

Olga Pawłowska wants to direct the visitors’ attention to areas of reality that seem resistant to the imposed rhythm. Whenever one confronts nature, especially the power of the sea or mountains, one gets the impression of their existence beyond time.

The monumental architecture of ancient temples seems to represent a sort of challenge to nature. In wanting to surpass it, man actually fought against transience. If there is any place where one feels that the sand in the hourglass stops shifting, it is precisely within the walls of a several-thousand-year-old mastaba.

Using paintings, spatial forms and video, Olga Pawłowska expresses affirmation for nature and the buildings erected by man in its likeness. By directing a situation of radical deceleration, the artist creates a platform for reflection on permanence and decay.

Olga Pawłowska, Black Mountain, 2023, oil / canvas, 180 x 240 cm, courtesy of O. Pawłowska, photo: O. Pawłowska