Author Archives: jolanta
The Glory of Life
In November 2005, Beijing Film Studio was rented for around a month and some new works including Home (170 x 300 cm) and Poisonous Spider (170 x 210 cm) as well as panoramic images such as Yaochi Fiesta and Dream of Migrants were created. A demolished home and a poisonous web made out of barbed […]
Amid the Mundane and the Extreme
My video and installation work centers on the co-existence of dualities and places the “screen” as the seam that holds together the boundaries of disparate realities, a vibrant yet questioning meeting point of extremes. My work draws on collections, both physical and virtual as vehicle. My concern is to re-consider the form of such anthologies […]
Marina Hanacek
Marina Hanacek’s art is an extension/reflection of her passion for the city and the city life. She draws on her extensive knowledge of materials and textures to imbue her work with the energy and experience of urban life. Marina Hanacek Marina Hanacek’s art is an extension/reflection of her passion for the city and the […]
Bucking the Trend With New Territories
The impenetrable, over-inflated, bubble of the New York art world yields interesting results when artists resist the status quo in a formidable and energized way. Historically artists’ entrepreneurial itch has defined this city, leading to new territory, digging out niches and trenches in places that are undesirable. Galleries usually follow suit hoping to cash in […]
My Very Own Hollywood
With a mixture of sarcasm and sincerity, my videos replay scenes from my own life through kitsch characters and cultural clichés, addressing wider issues of femininity, identity, and autobiography. In my earliest videos, Our Bodies, Ourselves, and Tale of Narcissus (2003), I took the soundtracks from excerpts of the TV show, Sex and the City, […]
A Terrorist’s Reliquary
In our post-9/11 world, we are saturated by images of torture, both by our enemies and by our own government. Terror is pervasively present in the visual environment: stories from Saddam Hussein’s torture chambers, reports on the treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, and images of Abu Ghraib, have become a part of our collective […]
Transformed Imagery
Since the very beginning and until today, Ange Leccia’s work has taken up residence at the margins of reality, not far enough out to be absurd, but just beyond the ordinary, in other words, right where a view can become an image. Images, what’s more, were always what Leccia was about, who got his first […]
Kari Middelthon
I paint in an abstract-figurative way with vivid colors that contrast together strongly. As a Norwegian painter I am specially occupied with the blue light that my country Kari Middelthon I paint in an abstract-figurative way with vivid colors that contrast together strongly. As a Norwegian painter I am specially occupied with the blue light that my […]
Make Yourself at Home
When I photograph, I try to incorporate experimentation, discarded trends, and a sense of story. My projects explore the relationship between subject and environment, holding reverence to the human condition. I am currently working on a project involving women, nude, in their homes. I started the series in the summer of 2007; the first “home […]
A Youth Documentary
At my age, what mix in our minds are a bizarre material world, a cruel reality, and impractical ideas. I always describe my feelings with a word “obsessed.” Everything confuses me, yet cannot stop me. In this fast-changing society, we are bereft of real life. I cannot avoid any kind of relationships, but interact with […]
