(video HD, 16:9, 2016)
The
work is my reflection on the creation of an image in the human eye
and on how this image can stimulate the other senses. The video was
prepared for the exhibition 'Dotyk
/ The Touch',
co-organized by BWA Kielce and Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku
(the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko). The exhibition explored
the relations between the sense of touch and the possible esthetic
experience of a piece of art, focusing on the haptic phenomenon in
art. In my work, I referred to the relations of the sense of touch
with the moving image, including the way in which it can generate
perceptions relating to the other senses in humans. The idea lying
behind my project was to create an immersive situation in a gallery
room – projections engulfing spectators, enabling them to immerse
themselves in an image.
In my project, there are three large video projections screened in
the space of a gallery room. Two of them together make up one
narrative work, wherein a tale is being spun through the
juxtaposition of images being shown on the synchronized screens as
well. The third projection is being shown on a separate wall as a
looped video picture. In the work, the inside of the eye was
compared to a material structure whose system is constantly modeled
by the sunbeams in the ongoing recording and erasing process. With
the so modeled image, the inside of the eye was compared to a
medieval cloister garth – a small monastic garden designed so that
its arrangement and flora could reflect symbolic contents and
meanings.
