Lukas Bury & Weronika Balcerak, Distant soil, shared horizon, 2024, Two-channel video installation, 5'32
In these artworks, we explore our individual histories and the nature of our relationship as both artists and life partners. The setting is Rogów, Poland, where we filmed a piece of land significant to Weronika's heritage—a blackcurrant plantation that transitioned into a woodland and a cereal field. Upon our engagement, Weronika's parents committed to transferring these lands to Lukas as a form of dowry. Although the screens suggest our co-presence, there's never a point of convergence in the imagery where we simultaneously occupy the space or acknowledge each other.