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TRANSPARENCY
installation view, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw,
2004
The
exhibition TERRITORIES OF PRESENCE consist of a video installation
titled TRANSPARENCY by Anna Konik.
Anna Konik's project focuses on individuals who live in solitude
and seem to have been almost entirely forgotten. Abandoned by society,
they seem to live outside of time. Confined to their apartments
and seemingly entrapped in their own stories, they are left to live
solely with their memories. The artist has chosen to show us the
image of people who have become estranged, been "stripped"
of corporality, made transparent and thus invisible. Anna Konik
has found four protagonists willing to tell their stories on camera.
They recall their youth, loved ones, people they have met in life.
They are lonely and desperately seek to form bonds, yet they prove
surprisingly capable of impartial contemplation of their destinies,
as if they were the most perceptive, detached observers. Their stories
become cathartic experiences - their lives are retold over eight
minutes during which time ceases to flow. These narratives seem
like dark fables, bleak and bitter, with no chance of ending happily,
while the storytellers themselves resemble characters from the plays
of Samuel Beckett. The artist has transformed her source material
(that is, each individuals' video-taped story) by multiplying and
animating it. The entirety takes on the form of a passage.
collaboration
and technical support Gunter Eisermann (Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weisensee)
project
produced in cooperation with Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart,
Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weisensee, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski
Castel in Warsaw
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