Night Flight
Work touches upon ways of passing and sustaining data and is inspired by Gustawa Jarecka – writer and translator who was engaged in creating The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto. Besides collecting information about life within occupied area she was supposed to translate Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – story about a pilot responsible for transporting mail by plane.
Her: Monika Łopuszyńska
Sound: Żaneta Rydzewska
DoPs: Wawrzyniec Skoczylas, Michał Szaranowicz
The project was financially supported by the Marshal of the Greater Poland Voivodeship.
Work touches upon ways of passing and sustaining data and is inspired by Gustawa Jarecka – writer and translator who was engaged in creating The Underground Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto. Besides collecting information about life within occupied area she was supposed to translate Night Flight by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – story about a pilot responsible for transporting mail by plane.
Her: Monika Łopuszyńska
Sound: Żaneta Rydzewska
DoPs: Wawrzyniec Skoczylas, Michał Szaranowicz
The project was financially supported by the Marshal of the Greater Poland Voivodeship.
Bloodstream
Installation, thermal wire, 2019
Duo work with Michał Szaranowicz for the Starak Family Foundation
Bloodstream refers to floating movement of employees within Spectra building. In a significant communication route we put a symbolic blue vein and connected it with the tissue of the company premises. While going through the passageway, perception of this organic system changes. It is possible to touch the cable and feel the energy that depends on ambient temperature.
Installation, thermal wire, 2019
Duo work with Michał Szaranowicz for the Starak Family Foundation
Bloodstream refers to floating movement of employees within Spectra building. In a significant communication route we put a symbolic blue vein and connected it with the tissue of the company premises. While going through the passageway, perception of this organic system changes. It is possible to touch the cable and feel the energy that depends on ambient temperature.
H (Reconstruction Of Position)
Video, loop, 2018
The work reconstructs positions visible on the archival photographs taken in 1945 in Neuengamme. As opposed to historical event, in the video there is no one who influences the girl’s posture by holding her body. She repeats the choreography after somebody standing behind the camera.
Girl: Maria Kamińska
Choreography: Magdalena Fejdasz
Sound: Żaneta Rydzewska (Delirium-Edition - organisation for tomorrow’s art)
DoP: Krzysztof Werner
Location: Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital in Warsaw
The project was financially supported by Masovian Voivodeship.
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Video, loop, 2018
The work reconstructs positions visible on the archival photographs taken in 1945 in Neuengamme. As opposed to historical event, in the video there is no one who influences the girl’s posture by holding her body. She repeats the choreography after somebody standing behind the camera.
Girl: Maria Kamińska
Choreography: Magdalena Fejdasz
Sound: Żaneta Rydzewska (Delirium-Edition - organisation for tomorrow’s art)
DoP: Krzysztof Werner
Location: Bersohn and Bauman Children’s Hospital in Warsaw
The project was financially supported by Masovian Voivodeship.
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Sluice
3-channel video installation, oyster shells, 2018
A master’s degree duo work with Michał Szaranowicz prepared in Studio of Spatial Activities led by Prof. Mirosław Bałka
Defence: 27.09.2018, Komputer Gallery in Warsaw.
In Warsaw, on the east bank of the Vistula, across the river from the Museum of Modern Art an investment Port Praski (eng. Praga Harbour) is being realized. 1885-2012 the area serves as a harbour surrounded by rather poor tenement buildings and a green wasteland, there was a slaughterhouse, too. The ambitious, emerging housing developement should change the place’s aura for a European-class district (the architects even refer to London City).
The investment cannot be finished until a water lock is built. In our installation we would like to touch upon Port Praski and point out a lock’s function - as a machine that changes level of something that goes through it.
For the exposition we chose a room that contains different levels itself - to get into you have to go downstairs, inside there are also steps. The space is placed close to Port Praski.
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3-channel video installation, oyster shells, 2018
A master’s degree duo work with Michał Szaranowicz prepared in Studio of Spatial Activities led by Prof. Mirosław Bałka
Defence: 27.09.2018, Komputer Gallery in Warsaw.
In Warsaw, on the east bank of the Vistula, across the river from the Museum of Modern Art an investment Port Praski (eng. Praga Harbour) is being realized. 1885-2012 the area serves as a harbour surrounded by rather poor tenement buildings and a green wasteland, there was a slaughterhouse, too. The ambitious, emerging housing developement should change the place’s aura for a European-class district (the architects even refer to London City).
The investment cannot be finished until a water lock is built. In our installation we would like to touch upon Port Praski and point out a lock’s function - as a machine that changes level of something that goes through it.
For the exposition we chose a room that contains different levels itself - to get into you have to go downstairs, inside there are also steps. The space is placed close to Port Praski.
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Trajectory of Bodies
Performative action, 2018
Electronic readers have been installed in all buildings of the ERGO Group, which employees use when entering or leaving company premises. With a personal card, the system can identify the employee and record the exact time of work.
I chose dreams and thoughts as the sphere of life that is unpredictable, and escapes monitoring and examination with the technical capabilities of ERGO Hestia as insurer and employer. I focused on the relation between the corporation and the individual. I was interested in control and privacy, risk management and the limits of predictability. I wanted to move away from the digitization of data and image.
I asked ERGO Hestia Group employees to write down any dream they remembered. The only requirement was that the report be handwritten and anonymous. Employees of the central office in Sopot, of thirty agencies and two foundations belonging to the Group were invited to participate in the activity. 2624 people were informed about the campaign.
The card registration system was switched off for the duration of the campaign and 40 boxes for “dreams” were placed next to the telematics readers. I received 232 responses.
Currently in ERGO Hestia Group Art Collection.
Performative action, 2018
Electronic readers have been installed in all buildings of the ERGO Group, which employees use when entering or leaving company premises. With a personal card, the system can identify the employee and record the exact time of work.
I chose dreams and thoughts as the sphere of life that is unpredictable, and escapes monitoring and examination with the technical capabilities of ERGO Hestia as insurer and employer. I focused on the relation between the corporation and the individual. I was interested in control and privacy, risk management and the limits of predictability. I wanted to move away from the digitization of data and image.
I asked ERGO Hestia Group employees to write down any dream they remembered. The only requirement was that the report be handwritten and anonymous. Employees of the central office in Sopot, of thirty agencies and two foundations belonging to the Group were invited to participate in the activity. 2624 people were informed about the campaign.
The card registration system was switched off for the duration of the campaign and 40 boxes for “dreams” were placed next to the telematics readers. I received 232 responses.
Currently in ERGO Hestia Group Art Collection.
Disciplinary Mechanisms
Photographs, videos, 2016
By analyzing the shape and material of hunting gear, the work examines the oppressiveness of environment geometrization.
Grand Prix at 12. Inspirations Festival in TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin.
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Photographs, videos, 2016
By analyzing the shape and material of hunting gear, the work examines the oppressiveness of environment geometrization.
Grand Prix at 12. Inspirations Festival in TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin.
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Play Down
Digital photograph, video, 2017
Registration of semen collection from a stallion to using it in artificial insemination.
Courtesy of Wechta Stallion Station.
Work presented at the exhibition of the laureates of the 9. Polish Biennale of Young Art Fish Eye at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Słupsk as well as in The Fort Institute of Photography in Warsaw.
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Digital photograph, video, 2017
Registration of semen collection from a stallion to using it in artificial insemination.
Courtesy of Wechta Stallion Station.
Work presented at the exhibition of the laureates of the 9. Polish Biennale of Young Art Fish Eye at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Słupsk as well as in The Fort Institute of Photography in Warsaw.
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Untitled (Remote Control)
9 x 30x40cm, digital print on dibond, archive paper: Moab Entrada Natural Rag 190gsm
The exhibition of the winners ot the 16. Hestia Artistic Journey Competition - recipient of a Special Prize Museum on the Vistula, 2017; phot. Piotr Litwic.
9 x 30x40cm, digital print on dibond, archive paper: Moab Entrada Natural Rag 190gsm
The exhibition of the winners ot the 16. Hestia Artistic Journey Competition - recipient of a Special Prize Museum on the Vistula, 2017; phot. Piotr Litwic.
Untitled (Remote Control)
Thermograms, 2017
Topographic series of thermograms featuring places in Warsaw, Poland, where political decisions are being/have been being made. The way of depicting deflects relation between state and an individual, diverts direction of observation.
Thermography detects radiation in the long-infrared range and records temperature emitted by objects. Due to a thermographic camera used in a project, construction of the significant, influential buildings, the inside of their organisms as well as their tissues, became visible.
Currently in ERGO Hestia Group Art Collection.
Thermograms, 2017
Topographic series of thermograms featuring places in Warsaw, Poland, where political decisions are being/have been being made. The way of depicting deflects relation between state and an individual, diverts direction of observation.
Thermography detects radiation in the long-infrared range and records temperature emitted by objects. Due to a thermographic camera used in a project, construction of the significant, influential buildings, the inside of their organisms as well as their tissues, became visible.
Currently in ERGO Hestia Group Art Collection.