Nepotyzm
Opening: Friday, January 3rd, 2014, 7:00 PM
the fact of energy is that
Olivia Dunbar
reading: 7:30 PM
Working around a subject which seems to be strongly rooted in our customs and social reality. Someone said that the ideas of the french revolution: liberty, equality and fraternity materialised only through their evil cousins: determinism, inequality and nepotism. We find patterns reflected in toothless-old-man's evil grin and his mocking laughter, hiding somewhere in a dark alley. Maybe around the corner, if not only just here.
for documentation, scroll down
Anna Maria Łuczak (1984, Łódź, Poland)
(Maciej Łuczak's sister)
Studied in Willem de Kooning Academy (2005-09) and Piet Zwart Institute (2011-09). Works and lives in Rotterdam.
Her films and sculptures embody the struggle of the emotional in understanding historical events. Meaning and form are constantly interchanged. As visual motifs she often works with archive video material and film, balancing on boarders between sculpture, literature, video and photography. Meaning is something fragmented which comes into being while the viewer moves through space.
Olivia Dunbar (1988, Vancouver, Canada)
(good friend of Anna Maria Łuczak)
In 2010 graduated from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, and Piet Zwart institute in Rotterdam (2011-13). Currently she is a resident at Rijks Academie in Amsterdam (2014-16)
Poetics of Olivia Dunbar, seemingly embeded in contemporary popculture, has rich references
to philosophy. In her dravongs, sculptures, video works, she is picturing everyday palpitations, showing the deepnes of superficial and the tragedy of nulity.
1. Wacław Łuczak, autor unknown, oil on canvas, 38x35 cm, around 1930
2. Andrzej Krzysztof Łuczak, crayon on paper,
Z. Lipińska,19x20cm, 1947
3. untitled, wood, acrylic paint, Anna Maria Łuczak, 2014
My so called life, ski googles, stick, peanut butter, cereals, bubble bath, wax,
energy drink, flowers, video loop,
Olivia Dunbar, 2014
And I heared you (gasp), pepsi-cola on paper, Olivia Dunbar, 2014
untitled, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, Anna Maria Łuczak, 2014
Maciej Łuczak during the install
untitled, porcelain, brick, Anna Maria Łuczak, 2014
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