The More You Travel, The Less You Know
Agnieszka Wolodzko is an artist, an author of texts about art, and an organizer of exhibitions. She co-operates with Wyspa Gallery, works at Laznia Contemporary Art Center, lectures at Gdansk Multimedia Academy. However it seems that first of all she is, is a globetrotter. She has […] Više
When in 1997 French Immigration Office denied her the permit of stay and asked her to leave France, Ghazel, artist of Iranian origin, did not peacefully wait further, in any case unfavourable, development of events. In her own way she met the challenge so typical for lives and fate of multimillion population of dislocated. She […] Više
Not to compromise his authority in front of the crew who would not understand that even a sailor feels the need for artistic expression, Zlatan Dumanic – releasing banked up energy and relieving psychological plights that define his hypersensual nature – drawing and writing during his voyages (most often using a blue ball-point pen) on […] Više
Davor Mezak selects everyday objects and stores them into the gallery space; “white cube” is a neutral, white exhibition area, backdrop “staging/mise en scene”, being not just passive envelope of “things “, but treated by the author as a “cohesive environment” and a “body” with multiple perspectives. Gallery is becoming a simulacrum of a flat […] Više
The exhibition “Minute of silence” results from an appeal to the artists to react to the moments in their lives/experience when they had to, by their own will or decision or forced by circumstances, draw away from the past, go on, leave something behind. Connotations that we discussed varied from the intimate, sometimes even tragic […] Više
Unstable Equilibrium There are numerous aspects in the works Burning Boots and Defining Moments that unify them: the territory in which the videos were filmed (the river Lika in Croatia); the use of natural elements (water and fire); the metaphor concerning the search for balance in relation to the social, cultural, or psychological nature […] Više
