![Image: Izabela Pluta, [Iterative composition 1979 (pages 17-18 Australia)], 2020. Courtesy the artist and Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, Sydney.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/10.-Izabela-PLUTA_Iterative_composition_australia2020-200x125.jpg)
Agnieszka Polska (PL)
The New Sun
27 February 2021 - 20 June 2021
![Image: Agnieszka Polska, [The New Sun (Tear)] (detail), 2017. Courtesy Żak Branicka, Berlin and Overduin & Co.,
Los Angeles © the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/New-Sun-Tear_print_70x70-200x200.jpg)
Image: Agnieszka Polska, The New Sun (Tear) (detail), 2017. Courtesy Żak Branicka, Berlin and Overduin & Co., Los Angeles © the artist.
Image: Agnieszka Polska, The New Sun (Tear) (detail), 2017. Courtesy Żak Branicka, Berlin and Overduin & Co., Los Angeles © the artist.
When
27 February 2021 - 20 June 2021
Region
East
Venue
Accessibility
Wheelchair access, Accessible Toilets, Accessible Parking
Due to lockdown restrictions delaying installation of this exhibition, The New Sun will now open on 27 February.
Agnieszka Polska’s recent digital media works investigate society’s shared experiences of environmental and humanitarian catastrophe. In an era of fluid concepts of truth, Polska uses fictional narrative devices such as artifice and myth to manipulate objective experiences of space and time.
The New Sun was part of the artist’s winning installation for the National Gallery Prize at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin in 2017. The work features a projection of the sun personified as an animated character who addresses the audience directly with scientific theory, poetry, hackneyed jokes and crooning love songs.
The New Sun is free to view during PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography
![Image: Simon Fujiwara, [Joanne], 2016/2018. Courtesy the artist; FVU, The Photographers’ Gallery; Ishikawa Foundation; and Esther Schipper, Berlin. Film still © the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/vlcsnap-2016-11-14-11h31m43s150-200x112.jpeg)
![Image: Agnieszka Polska, [The New Sun (Joy)] (detail), 2017. Courtesy Żak Branicka, Berlin and Overduin & Co.,
Los Angeles © the artist.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/New-Sun-Joy_smaller-200x200.jpg "New Sun (Joy)")
