Exhibition My Pearls Spilled Out Along the Way explore the perception of objects and their accumulation in the context of a digitalized society, as well as the changing ways in which we view them. Objects are no longer merely passive things intended for human use, but speak their own language, which mirrors the battleground of broader power structures and political games. How powerful are the things we use? Are mere objects capable of changing the rules of the game?

Agata Popik (*1999) is a visual artist from Poland who currently lives and works in Warsaw. In her latest works, which combine drawing, painting, and installation, she primarily creates imaginary landscapes – strange spaces with a liminal, transitional character. She has long explored themes associated with feelings of peculiar tension and ambiguous communication that touch upon subliminal emotions. In her artistic practice, she also examines the perception of boundaries in various contexts, interpersonal tension, change, and injustice, which she transforms into mysterious urban landscapes. She is primarily interested in the way ordinary, everyday objects or situations can evoke unease and tension. In 2025, she graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she defended her thesis in the studios of Błażej Ostoj Lniski, Henryk Gostyński, and Wojciech Bąkowski. Popik has presented her work in solo exhibitions, including Take Me Home at Przeciąg Gallery in Warsaw (2025) and Chances of sleep are fifty-fifty at Próżnia Gallery in Szczecin (2023). She has also participated in group exhibitions such as Think of Others, Think of Yourself at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2025), Innocent Sorcerers at Grey House Gallery in Kraków (2025), and Neue Stimmung at the Gdańsk City Gallery (2025).

Anna Rusínová (*1998) is a Czech jewelry designer and visual artist based in Prague who works at the intersection of fine art and design. Her work encompasses both functional objects and free-standing pieces, as well as art installations. She most often expresses herself artistically through silver, although she also works with glass and textiles. Some of her works straddle the line between jewelry and fashion - they are unique hybrids, precise in their imperfection, manifesting a resistance to delicate jewelry-making. She explores how our understanding of objects, their cultural and social roles, and symbolic functions change over time. She focuses on interpersonal themes such as fragility and vulnerability. She graduated from the K.O.V. studio at UMPRUM in Prague. She is one of the co-founders of the Fuga kolektiv association, which brings together ten artists working at the intersection of fine and applied arts, with the aim of exploring new avenues for collaborative presentation. Her group exhibitions include La Vila Fuga (UM Gallery, 2026), Feastopia (Industra Gallery, 2025), Pipeline Dreams (FaVU Gallery, 2025), Crazy Fuga at Spektrum Gallery (2024), And her fingertips chose the one that was still rolling at Zaazrak|Dornych in Brno together with Hana Kubešová and Kateřina Houbová (2024), I swapped my silk slippers for lead ones at the NIKA Gallery (2024).