The first UK solo show from London based Australian-Polish artist Tomasz Kobialka.
Barbarous Relic brings together sculptural work and a video installation that explore trading, capital markets and finance through the lens of personal experiences - highlighting the ways derivative capitalism was promoted and embedded within society and how it spreads to the younger generations.
In the beginning was accounting. The earliest written word is a statement of accounts imprinted on a clay cuneiform tablet: markings representing grain, fish, and cattle. In the first and rapidly growing cities of Mesopotamia, clay tablets were a way to track, inventorise, and manage the accumulation of resources over time. Our WEIRD nations - Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic - were built on the idea of taking dutiful care of the property one owns and making sure your debts are paid.
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
