Bronka Nowicka | Being's Belongings | tomovideo, video, tomographics
International Centre for Graphic Arts - Experiment Gallery
Rynek Główny 29, 2nd floor, 31-010 Krakow, Poland
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06.02.2015 – 25.02.2015
vernissage: 05.02.2015, 18:00
A BEING’S BELONGINGS
Narratives by Bronka Nowicka concentrate on relations between people and things: personified, embodying the dead, kept in mind – existing only as an image of matter in a memory. The author documents human-thing relations; she collects stories about their shared existences, gathers images of things: sentimental, fetishized, condemned to annihilation that is performed by their owners on purpose. The author pays particular attention to the last category of things trying to illustrate their way from matter to memory. This is why she uses a CT scanner as a film making device. She obtains moving images of the scanned matter (the film is one of the current metaphors of memory). The images are documental by nature, they testify to the existence of the thing with medical precision – they are their IDs. At the same time, they create associations with the remembered. By using penetration through matter, stratifying the tomograms, Nowicka refers to the degradation of memories, the process of forgetting. The use of X-rays to form images of inorganic matter allows the authorto obtain various image poetics: from those associated with hyperrealistic drawings to ephemeral ones, reminding the fleeting, thus the recollection too. By using a CT scanner as a film making device, the author is discovering a new medium in the area of video art.
The exhibition “A being’s belongings” is made up by tomovideos, videos and a cycle of tomograms.
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Bronka Nowicka
Schools: Film School in Łódź, Directing Department, Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków – Painting Departament. Now: a PhD student – Multimedia Departament, Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. Fields of exploration, inspiration, work: Relations between people and objects, Picture in movement, Language, Meeting, Theatre. Looks for new media.
