On the 28th of February, I will be a completing a very fruitful and exciting chapter in collaboration with South London Women Artists on the Arts Council supported Art residency,
Finders, Keepers, Losers, Weepers.
The
SLWA art residency at the Conway Hall actually also prompted me to extend my
current practice, ranging from abstract drawing, installation and photography,
to the time based medium- performance and ultimately video (as a documentation).
The installation, I created for the Conway Hall, called Con-tain map- Ariadne saw, was inspired loosely by the Mythical Ariadne, who
supplied her beloved Theseus, with a string as an aid to find the way back from
the Labyrinth. I was using red string and
black, transparent fabric and also element of artificial light, which created
the shadows in coexistence with drawing on wallpaper, laid along the staircase
within the site chosen for the work.
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Beata Kozlowska, Con-tain Map- Ariadne saw, Site specific installation,details,mixed media,
Conway Hall, London, 2015.
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Beata Kozlowska, Con-tain Map- Ariadne saw, Site specific installation,detail, mixed media,
Conway Hall, London, 2015.
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Beata Kozlowska, Con-tain Map- Ariadne saw, Site specific installation,detail, mixed media
Conway Hall, London, 2015.
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Beata Kozlowska, Con-tain Map- Ariadne saw, Site specific installation,details,mixed media,
Conway Hall, London, 2015.
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It has been an exhilarating and
spontaneous process of adjusting to the specificity of the interiors. The
string is the possibility to go beyond the existing frame of mind or mental
image – which, through the act of intuitive drawing in Space, (here string is
also a metaphor for a drawn line) can provide the border for transition/
transformation and restructuring. The architectural elements like folded paper
suspended on strings, randomly spread across the site, are corresponding with
the idea of never-ceasing and unstable manner of forming the new Syntax.
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| Beata Kozlowska, Threading- preliminary,installation detail, 2014 |
| Beata Kozlowska, Threading- preliminary,installation detail, 2014 |
