To mark the 25th anniversary of the ING Polish Art Foundation, Moving Image explores collecting cultural artefacts not simply as acquisition or preservation, but as a gesture toward an unknown future recipient. While it could be said that every collection – be it of visual art, of poems, or of colorful shells gathered on a shore – carries a latent promise of bestowal, this dynamic is built into the ING collection by design

The exhibition opens the archives of Zachęta to revisit the networks of global artistic relations forged during the socialist era in Poland. Contemporary artists confront these histories with the present, asking what remains of the “internationalist friendships” from before 1989, and how they might shape our understanding of a shared past.

The latest film by Katarzyna Depta-Garapich, created for the exhibition at the Zachęta Project Room, is also called Feral — the same as the exhibition and the new works presented in it. The artist seems to speak of the power of nature, where the roles of humans, animals and plants are equal and interspecies transformation is possible.