Ada Karczmarczyk “Way to Conversion videos 2009-2014”
Postmasters Gallery
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Postmasters presents a group of music videos by Polish artist Ada Karczmarczyk, a romantic dreamer, an ardent Catholic and a pop star.
Ada Karczmarczyk, born in 1985 post-Communist, heavily religious Poland, is a multimedia artist, performer, blogger and singer. In her work she connects three worlds which are often irreconcilable, mutually exclusive, and in perpetual conflict: popculture, spirituality, and art. Since 2012 the artist claims to have undergone a conversion towards spirituality and faith, and she has made it her mission to have Catholic religion updated to current cultural metrics, and to be unafraid of contemporary, unorthodox, semi-blasphemous aesthetics, and modes of delivery. Karczmarczyk sees old methods of distribution of religious tenets and universal values as ineffective, disconnected and boring, and so she aims to promote the mystical spiritual experiences as a positive and valuable alternative to psychedelic drugs.
In ten videos on view, the show charts Karczmarczyk’s transformation from secular decadence to spiritual awakening. High Mass is a saturated rainbow-colored version of the church ceremony presented as sped-up “trip” of visions experienced after taking LSD. It is set to a cheerful Gospel arrangement, mixed with computer game sounds. In the triumphant power ballad Children of the Internet, the world comes united across the global networks.
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from June 06, 2015 to July 18, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-06-06 from 17:30 to 20:00