LOW ON GAS is an exhibion of young Polish arsts from Lodz, an amalgamaon of individual

studies of transcendence, subconsciousness and undiscovered forces. Taking the slogan

"Trapped in me, surrounded by evil, low on gas" from 90s film Army of Darkness as their

moo, these arsts draw on the power that has accumulated in the points of tension created

by their refusal to rely on a given reality and their readiness to experiment with its boundaries.

Working in a variety of media and means of expression, they display a body of work veering

bbetween banality and illuminaon.

LOW ON GAS

Emilia Kuryłowicz, Hypotecal Fossils of Life Forms and Anna Bąk, video Sound Spa general view

Anna Bąk, frame from the video Sound Spa, HD video, 06’09’’, 2014 hps://vimeo.com/92616281

Emilia Kuryłowicz, Hypotecal Fossils of Life Forms, PAL video, 2014 hps://vimeo.com/92756068

frame from the video Hypotecal Fossils of Life Forms

Emilia Kuryłowicz, Robot Mouth, HD video, 2014

Emilia Kuryłowicz, Robot Mouth, HD video, 2014hps://vimeo.com/92691866

Natasza Splewińska, Clothing, glass, plassol, coon, wood, 2014

Iza Koniarz, Untled, mixed-media on canvas, 20 x 30 cm, 2012

Iza Koniarz, The shadow cast cycle, mixed media, paper 21 x 27 cm, 2012

Anna Bąk, Arions, files, polishing, glass, wood, 2014

Karolina Halatek, CAVE, 2014 plasterboard, metal, stroboscopes, 260 x 120 x 360 cm

CAVEhps://vimeo.com/92364176

CAVE

Anna Bąk Born in 1984. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. Works with various media: painng, collage, video, objects and sound, . Since October 2011 assistant teacher in the Mulmedia Class at Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. She took part in many indyvidual and group exhibions, in such places as: Enblanco Gallery and Grimmuseum in Berlin, Fabs Gallery in Warsaw or Czynna Gallery in Lodz. She was taking part in fesvals like Trans Art in Bolzano and Warsaw Autumn - InternaonalFFesval of Contemporary Music.www.annabak.blogspot.de

Karolina HalatekBorn 1985, is a mulmedia arst. Her work explores the relaons between the visual and metaphysical. She creates site-specific, light and kinec installaons. She was a set designer in producons that premiered at Cannes and Camerimage fesvals. Her works were exhibited at the internaoal fesvals like Fringe Fesval in Edinburgh, Light Move Fesval/ Lodz Design. She gShe graduated from the University of Arts London and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She also studied at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), where she parcipated in workshops held by Olafur Elliason's Instut für Raumexperimente. Karolina has made art projects in London, Edinburgh, Belfast, Berlin, Warsaw, Lodz, Wroclaw, Bytom. In 2013 Karolina got scholarship from Minister of Culture and Naonal Heritage of Poland.www.cargocollecve.com/karolinahalatek

Iza KoniarzBorn 1984 in Born 1984 in Kraśnik near Lublin. She graduated with honors from Graphic Design departmentat the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. Represented by Kolonie Gallery in Warsaw. She received a silver medal at the Cannes Internaonal Adversing Fesval, and First Prize during OFF-ka Cell Phone Film Fesval. As part of the Lodz Photo Fesval she her works were exhibited in Wschodnia Gallery. Iza Koniarz is one of the arsts who, instead of creang "for a cause", treat their works as direct extensions of their existence, creang under the spell of an interna imperave. In order to do that, the arst resorts to a variety of tools: beginning with oil paint, pens, markers and pencils,and ending with quicand ending with quick-dry varnish, spray-paint, and mulcolor threads of varying thickness.www.koniarz.art.pl

Natasza SplewinskaBorn in 1986. Natasza graduated from fashion design department at Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. Takes care of drawing, installaon, and object. Her works are oen site-specific. In 2005 he received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and Naonal Heritage. She was a winner of the Golden Thread, 2012 and was showcasing her works at Light Move FFesval in Lodz and Fashionclash in Maastricht.

Emilia Kuryłowicz Born in 1983 in Warsaw, Poland, graduated from the Lodz Academy of Fine Arts. She works in a variety of media including video, installaon and performance. Her research explores the absurdies of modern experience, cultural detritus and modern mythologies. She has parcipated in exhibions at Contemporary Art Center KIM? (Riga), PM Galerie (Berlin), Entropia Gallery (Wrocław), as well as presented films in fesvals including Camerimage (Lodz) and Biennale WRO (Wrocław). She She was a co-founder of ARTICHOKE, an arst collecve that organized myspace.ldz, a series of site-specific exhibions that took place in the public spaces of Lodz from 2007-2010. Since 2011, Emilia, along with Cezary Zacharewicz, have been working under the name LASTSUPER, producing music videos for musicians including Light Asylum and Dillon. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Lodz, Poland. www.emiliakurylowicz.com