Video-performance - Under Certain Circumstances - 03:00 min - date of create November 2021.
Created by Elena Vertikova. Performed Elena Vertikova. Camera Tomasz Freda, Rafał Kostner.
Created by Elena Vertikova. Performed Elena Vertikova. Camera Tomasz Freda, Rafał Kostner.
The video-performance was created in the space of the historic Old Sobieski Water Reservoir. The reservoir is in the form of a circle, about a hundred meters long. The reservoir used to supply the city with water, but now it has been empty for a long time.
The completed artwork was based on the conducted research of space in the sense of its topography - circularity, but also on the condition of the absence of light and water, which revealed binary and antagonistic oppositions in the setting: beginning/end, light/darkness, absence/presence, linearity/cyclicity.
In the original it is a two-channel video. The performance lasted 58 minutes. At the beginning of the performance there was a bucket full of water. The water poured from one bucket to another with each pass. The performance ended when the water ran out in the process.
Exhibitions:
The completed artwork was based on the conducted research of space in the sense of its topography - circularity, but also on the condition of the absence of light and water, which revealed binary and antagonistic oppositions in the setting: beginning/end, light/darkness, absence/presence, linearity/cyclicity.
In the original it is a two-channel video. The performance lasted 58 minutes. At the beginning of the performance there was a bucket full of water. The water poured from one bucket to another with each pass. The performance ended when the water ran out in the process.
Exhibitions:
2024 Milan Indie Film Festival, Best Independent Film Award, Milan, Italy.
2024 World Water Film Festival, The Forum at Columbia University, New York, USA.
2024 World Water Film Festival, the London Museum of Water and Steam, London, England.
2022 Young Painters, Great Armoury, group exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland.
2022 XXV International Encounters Traverse, (Almost) Unlimited Capacity, Cinéma ABC, Toulouse, France.
2022 The Climate Change Memorial, video-art screenings at Alphabet Art Centre, produced by The New Museum of Networked Art, Cologne, Germany.
2022 BWA Olsztyn, group exhibition of the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk.
2022 LA Art Show, collaborative installation curated by Max Presneill / Torrance Art Museum.
2021 Mother Water, Old Sobieski Water Reservoir (2 channel screening), Gdansk, Poland..
2024 World Water Film Festival, The Forum at Columbia University, New York, USA.
2024 World Water Film Festival, the London Museum of Water and Steam, London, England.
2022 Young Painters, Great Armoury, group exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland.
2022 XXV International Encounters Traverse, (Almost) Unlimited Capacity, Cinéma ABC, Toulouse, France.
2022 The Climate Change Memorial, video-art screenings at Alphabet Art Centre, produced by The New Museum of Networked Art, Cologne, Germany.
2022 BWA Olsztyn, group exhibition of the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk.
2022 LA Art Show, collaborative installation curated by Max Presneill / Torrance Art Museum.
2021 Mother Water, Old Sobieski Water Reservoir (2 channel screening), Gdansk, Poland..
Publications:
2022 BWA Olsztyn, group exhibition of the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk.
2022 Young Painters, Great Armoury, group exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland.
2022 XXV International Encounters Traverse, (Almost) Unlimited Capacity, Cinéma ABC, Toulouse, France, p. 37.
2022 BWA Olsztyn, group exhibition of the Painting Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk.
2022 Young Painters, Great Armoury, group exhibition of Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland.
2022 XXV International Encounters Traverse, (Almost) Unlimited Capacity, Cinéma ABC, Toulouse, France, p. 37.
