Furniture with Memory
Warsaw-based designer and artist Agnieszka Lastoa exhibits pieces from her series 'Untitled (Objects)' - hybrid physical artifacts that combine advanced technology with antique furniture, juxtaposing notions of memory and progress. Highlights include "Untitled #1", a 90-year old oak dining table encased in an electro-polarized glass "skin". When an electric current is activated, "Untitled #1's table top instantly transforms into an opaque surface, and subsequently, becomes the site of a digital video projection representing the table's past life. Other pieces include a speckled, age-worn mirror that magically dissolves into an image of a young women (artist's mother) having double portrait in the mirror many decades earlier, and a Queen Anne table that served as a writing desk, with accompanying projected imagery of its previously pristine existence.
Lasota obtained a Master of Arts in Interior Design from Warsaw Academy of Arts, and completed a post-graduate course at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan. Her work has been exhibited in the International Design Biennale in Saint Etienne, France, DMY in Berlin, Germany, and LDZIGN in Lodz, Poland, along with a solo exhibition at the Wytwornia Theater in Warsaw, Poland.
