'To Follow' exhibition and artist talk at the Academy of Fine Arts in studio 6, Warsaw

Stawarska-Beavan, Magda orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-8893-9068 (2018) 'To Follow' exhibition and artist talk at the Academy of Fine Arts in studio 6, Warsaw. [Show/Exhibition]

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Official URL: https://asp.waw.pl/2018/04/13/magda-stawarska-beav...

Abstract

In this project, my enquiry into the processes of inner listening while experiencing the soundscape of the city led to an intense series of creative dialogues which encouraged a questioning of the real and imagined histories of place. To Follow project combines a video projection Who/Wer with a series of handmade silkscreens prints.

The split screen video is an exploration of the power struggle between moving and still image, reported and imagined text, the complexities of European language, the impact of the intimate spoken voice on the listener and how to achieve ‘balance’ between the male and female protagonists. The departure point for this piece is the familiarity and strangeness of a city’s soundscape, as experienced both by an insider and a stranger to the city. The set of silkscreens prints explore the phenomenon of the boundary. Through the experience of the drifter/follower and the person being followed, the prints examine the notion of borders as boundaries: between private and public, as separations and as the outer layers of ourselves.


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