Exhibition Opening. Anton Varga “Slow Shelter”

Anton Varga’s exhibition Slow Shelter traces a trajectory of observation through various anchors of safety and estrangement modes. The works in the exhibition exist within various contexts, which, in turn, lie between the NTSh-A building and the artist’s personal history with it, in transitional spaces, and in online spaces of war image circulation and its consumptio.

Anton Varga (b. 1989, UA) lives and works between New York and Poznan. Co-founder and core member of Open Group (since 2012).Varga studied at the Zakarpatia Art Institute (BFA, 2010), the Kharkiv State Academy of Art & Design (MFA, 2012), Hunter College (film, 2018-2019), and Rutgers University (MFA, 2024). Together with Open Group, Anton Varga curated the Ukrainian pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale and represented Poland at the 60th Venice Biennale. Anton Varga’s practice deals with temporary, archival, scrolling, pictorial, video, and celluloid film images. His recent interests center on war consumption, image circulation, archive, the politics of light, epistemological violence, institutional light, the light in YouTube videos, immortality, collaboration, labor, landscape, narration, nostalgia, memory and hope.

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