Half Life is a multimedia exhibition and a space for relaxation and immersion in images, located at the very heart of the Ravekjavik festival. We’ve invited seven artists to collaborate, each using video, games, spatial installations, and sound in their artistic practice. The term “half-life,” used in nuclear physics to describe the instability of atoms, refers here to the decay of conventional ways of imaging and seeing, as well as the blurring of boundaries between virtual, artificial, and organic elements of reality.

The exhibition will feature Borys Górski‘s video game World.exe, a walking-sim where the viewer can transport themselves to a virtual world to participate in its inevitable end. Claudia Fuggetti, a Fotofestiwal open program laureate, used her own photos from the Metamorphosis project to generate an AI-powered film that will take viewers on a psychedelic journey through a world of hybrid beings. Mikołaj Nowosad will present a series of LCD (liquid crystal dreams) images based on damaged screens. Julia Florczyk has prepared a series of audiovisual pieces under the collective title out.1, exploring the relationship between sounds and images in the process of constructing and erasing memory. Joanna Dyba‘s Unstable frame of reference is an invitation to change perspective through rotational movement. The exhibition will also include Katarzyna Dębska‘s 2-channel video installation For the pleasure of your eyes with music by Jerzy Mączyński, telling the story of phantom vegetation.

Curators: Tomasz Roszczybiuk, Franek Ammer