Łukasz Horbów, Maciej Kryński

Łukasz Horbów (b. 1995) is a visual artist and graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His artistic practice revolves around sound, space, performance and poetry. Through installations, performances and audiovisual works, he explores themes of fear, alienation and the contemporary human condition. His works have been presented internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Berlin Gallery Weekend and the National Museum in Warsaw. He is a co-founder of Curved Walls Gallery in Warsaw and one half of the artistic duo Szkuty, formed together with Maciej Kryński.

Maciej Kryński (b. 1996) is a visual artist and performer, graduated from Central Saint Martins in London and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Working at the intersection of performance, architecture, visual arts and sound, he creates installations, site-specific interventions and performative environments that examine how space, history and architecture shape the body, memory and collective experience. His works have been presented in Poland and internationally, including at DAAD Galerie in Berlin, Wozownia Gallery in Toruń, Wrocław Off Gallery Weekend and London’s Platform Theatre and Studio Theatre.

For several years, Horbów and Kryński have collaborated as Szkuty, developing performative and exhibition-based projects in Poland and abroad. Their works combine personal experience with reflections on power, memory, everyday life and social relationships, often employing humour, irony and ritual as artistic strategies.

Taking the Dirty Laundry Out of the House

Taking the Dirty Laundry Out of the House is a twenty-minute performance created by an artistic couple whose shared life forms the starting point of the work. The project emerges from one of the most recurring conflicts in their everyday life: sculptures, objects and artworks constantly occupying their home, filling rooms, hallways and storage spaces, becoming a source of negotiation and domestic tension.

During the performance, selected artworks are ceremonially carried through the museum in a solemn procession. Objects that normally get in the way and take up space are temporarily elevated to the status of relics. Yet the act of cleansing remains symbolic only. Nothing is truly resolved. At the end of the performance, all works return home, where they will continue to occupy space and provoke future disagreements.

The performance reflects on the tension between life and art, love and work, usefulness and creative obsession. Combining humour, tenderness and self-irony, the artists explore the impossibility of separating artistic practice from everyday existence, questioning how meaning is assigned to objects that may be treasured artworks for some and simply storage problems for others.