Angelika Markul

Tchouri

Angelika Markul is a Franco-Polish artist, born in Szczecin in 1977, who lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2003, where she studied in the atelier of Christian Boltanski. Her films, installations and sculptures move between art, science, fiction and memory. She won the Prix SAM in 2012 and has had solo exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature and the Centre International d'Art et du Paysage de Vassivière.

The Tchouri coffee table comes from her film Mémoire des glaciers (2019), which studies comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a frozen body regarded as a fossil of the solar system's formation. Markul photographed a detail of a 3D model of the comet, given to her by space agency researchers, and cast it in bronze. The tabletop rests on three legs. Its black satin patina is worked by the artist's hand, and its surface carries subtle topographies. Tchouri is published by ColAAb as a signed, numbered limited edition.

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    Born in Poland in 1977, Angelika Markul now lives and works in Paris. She is a graduate of the École nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris (E.N.S.B.A.), where she studied multimedia in Christian Boltanski's studio, and has received the Prix Sam Art (2013) and the Prix Coal (2016), the latter recognising work at the intersection of art and environment.

    Her practice is drawn to places that are vanished, little-known, or dangerous, blending documentary fact with fiction and science fiction. Recent films have taken her to Yonaguni, off southern Japan, to film a submerged monument of unknown origin; to the Naica crystal mine in northern Mexico, now closed to visitors; and to Chernobyl, to capture nature rebuilding itself on its own ruins. Her latest film, La Mémoire des Glaciers, continues a decade-long inquiry into memory, the body, place, destruction, and the cycle of life.

    Working between these paradoxes, she seeks not only to capture images but to sculpt them, making visible what is otherwise obscure and hidden.

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