This video is composed of two static shots: ballet dancing legs and playing piano cat.
CAST:
Ballet dancer and production: Aga Pokrywka
Soundtrack and character from the last shot: Nora the Piano Cat* (audio & visual quotation).
*Nora the piano-playing puss. Her owner, teacher of piano lessons said that “Nora began playing the piano on her own. She plays even when she is alone in the room. She really enjoys playing duets with a student playing on the 2nd piano”. [http://www.myspace.com/norapianocat]
(„Space or/and piece of art”, collective exhibition of Interdisciplinary Studio of Conservation and Restoration of Modern Art from Academy of Fine arts in Poznan; Poland, Poznan, Center of Contemporary Art INNER SPACES; May 2007)
(Exhibition in a frame of Slot Art Festival 2007; curator: Agnieszka Prygiel, co-curator: Agnieszka Pokrywka Poland, Lubiaz near to Wroclaw, June 2007)
(Agnieszka Pokrywka – street art, paintings, installation)
(In 17th century appeared in Dutch art books term stil-leven which means in literal translation “silent, static live”. This definition gave beginning for present “still life”. My installation is something like such stil-leven but with sound. I’m building something like a room of shadows (because of black shapes made by templates), but shadows which stayed after objects not made by them. These shadows have their independent being, their own live. Also sound is like reminiscence. Even that I added characteristic sounds to exactly objects, they still seem to be more like memories than useful, real objects. That’s why it is also reflection about the essence of the object. )
(Non-Stop Media, IV Festival of Youth Projects; Ukraine, Kharkov, The Kharkov City Art Gallery, May 2008)
(Kunstinbetrieb exhibition; Germany, Halle, Rudolf-Ernst-Weise-Straße 4/6, October 2008)
(Inspiration for these paintings were sticker codes which prevent before stealing. Everyone can find them for example on clothes. Because of them came in to existence series of abstract paintings (50×50). Such magnification and stencil stylistic make from them just part of uncomplicated, colorful and geometrical project.
Series of these paintings were exhibited together with ceramics made by Sylwia Chudy.)
(Poland, Poznan, Victus Gallery, October 2007- January 2008)
(Idea of cooperation between me and Sylwia Chudy was born in 2005. Then we started to draw series of simultaneous drawings , on a similar format, in the same technique. We were creating in the same time, in different places, what gave our works universality, possibility of functioning in various spaces. In this way has came in to the existence group of drawings which are getting the right meaning only in a context of each other.)
