Natalia Bażowska Lair
25.04 – 21.06.2015 Natalia Bażowska Lair
curators: Magda Kardasz
cooperation: Karolina Bielawska
In her artistic credo Natalia Bażowska declares her fascination for life in all its forms, for both its psychological aspects and the physiology of the body, and for drawing inspiration also from the world around her. The exhibition that she has prepared for the Zachęta Project Room confirms these theses.
This young artist first drew the attention of a wider public as a result of her video-performance Luna in 2014. The film presents the relation between a woman and a wild she-wolf, and their attempts to find zones of understanding. We see the successive phases of this unusual dialogue – from observation at a distance conditioned by a self-preservation instinct right through to an inter-species understanding motivated by a universal need for proximity. The author says that she planned to shoot a film about wolves and that the proximity emerged of its own accord.
This formally beautiful work was made in a forest – in an experimental nature centre near to Poznań (in cooperation with wolf specialists), but the performance itself seems to reverse the situation often viewed in the case of artists working with animals of the transposition of wild creatures into locations of art. Bażowska strives to dive deeply into the natural environment, to feel it, to explore it through touch (as in another film shown at the exhibition, Intimacy); what she is interested in is an empathetic recognition of the world of nature, and not of its subjugation or the instrumental making use of its elements in the creation of a work.
Natalia Bażowska
Lair
25.04 – 21.06.2015
Zachęta Project Room
ul. Gałczyńskiego 3, 00-362 Warsaw
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Godziny otwarcia:
tuesday–Sunday 12–8 p.m.
free entry
sponsor of the Zachęta Project Room: Benq
sponsors of the opening ceremony: Freixenet, Chocolissimo
media patronge: Notes.na.6.tygodni, The Warsaw Voice, Stolica