Those who remember the vaginal Spaceship of the Imagination in Carl Sagan’s 1980 show Cosmos will experience a Proustian moment upon entering Agnieszka Polska’s video installation The Happiest Thought at the Frye Art Museum.
Polska is a Polish artist based in Warsaw and Berlin. Her current show at the Frye is called Love Bite. It has two parts. One part consists of two videos of a blinking sun that talks a lot and brings to mind a creepy character in a children’s show. The second part of the exhibit occupies a large black space that has a huge screen and a collection of soft foam furniture. This is the part of the installation that recalls the Spaceship of the Imagination, the spaceship the most popular scientist of the second half of the 20th century, Carl Sagan, traveled through space in.
