A screening of video works by Dorota and Ola Buczkowska, 20th August 2008, 6.00 pm, Kino pod Baranami, Rynek Główny 27, Kraków.
After the show we would like to invite you for an after party to Miejsce, ul. Estery 1, Kazmierz, Kraków.
Dorota Buczkowska and Ola Buczkowska are sisters. They are autonomous artists; Ola’s primary medium is photography, and Dorota uses drawing and graphic techniques, she is a painter and sculptor. Both of them make great video works. A joint show of two sisters in not a confrontation, but a poetic juxtaposition of their works which, although different, may together form a narration. In Kino pod Baranami there will be shown films concerned with seemingly trivial subjects from everyday life – youth, sexuality, vitality, repulsion, devotion, death. The artists take these simple scenes and subjects out of their usual context, creating visual parables and fairytales about contemporary world.
Granat (Pomegranate) (Dorota Buczkowska) presents a young girl eating a pomegranate. Her white underwear contrasts with the red fruit; in complete silence there can only be heard her breath when she wipes off the juice from her face and the grains falling on the floor. The film is a minimalist painterly metaphor of initiation into womanhood.
Summer Love (Dorota Buczkowska) builds tension by showing a stifling summer relation between two strangers: a young girl and boy who see each other in a park; they look at each other but pretend they aren’t interested.
Marta (Ola Buczkowska) is a short film which interferes in our senses – nighttime, a surface of water, and a woman sailing lazily on a shimmering air bed.
Wenus (Venus) (Ola Buczkowska) is concerned with oppressiveness of culture and with „dictates” of culture imposed on women. The artist, sitting in front of a large reproduction of Botticelli’s Venus, methodically shaves her body with a disposable shaver. In the background we can hear an old Warsaw song with lyrics going: “For you, I want to be white and good as you, ‘cause with you it’s good, without you it’s bad, so I want to be white so that you love me.”
Oswajanie (Taming) and Ptak (Bird) (Dorota Buczkowska) and Ciało (Body) (Ola Buczkowska) are works on beauty and fascination with death.
Aleksandra Buczkowska (1978). Studied interior design (stage design) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (graduated in 2004), and photography at the Film School in Łódź (graduated in 2007).
Dorota Buczkowska (1971). Studied painting and sculpture conservation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (graduated in 1998), sculpture under the supervision of Professor Grzegorz Kowalski in 2003, and Gender Studies at the Warsaw University (1998-1999). Between 2002-2003 she was on a placement at Centre National des Arts Plastiques Villa Arson in Nice. She spent a few years in Arles in France. She works with Czarna Gallery in Warsaw.
Screening programme:
Granat (Pomegranate) – Dorota Buczkowska
Summer Love – Dorota Buczkowska
Marta – Ola Buczkowska
Wenus (Venus) – Ola Buczkowska
Oswajanie (Taming) – Dorota Buczkowska
Ptak (Bird) – Dorota Buczkowska
Ciało (Body) – Ola Buczkowska
Punkt Rosy (Dew Point) – Dorota Buczkowska
Huśtawka (Swing)– Dorota Buczkowska