Tales of the seas 2024
The proposed spatial installation is concerned with the relationship between sea and land, the flow of water and the erosion of memory and history. It is inspired by the world map Rudimentum Novitiorum, a 1491 woodcut depicting the world as it was known at the time, with Puglia marked. The title of the map, which translates as 'Tales of the Seas', provides a point of departure for the creation of spatial solids that are submerged in flowing water and gradually eroded. I am fascinated by the location of Taranto, the city that connects and divides the two seas, which becomes the symbolic motif of this work. In the installation, I will use natural materials, processed on-site and, above all elements from the sea, which refer to the historical tradition of Taranto, including the dyeing techniques that used molluscs.
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Alicja Panasiewicz
Poland
Visual artist studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland. Since 1996 she has been working at the Faculty of Art at the University of the National Education Commission, Krakow, teaching biodesign, environmental art, and visual structures. She leads workshops for students about visual perception and environmental art. She creates light objects and installations and focuses on the phenomenon of light in space and the aesthetic value of both that creates the viewer’s impression about them.
While creating my artistic works, I have focused on the phenomenon of light in space and the aesthetic value of both, which creates the viewer’s impression of them. Reality is just an optical illusion – it separates us from the actual world just like a curtain does. The peculiar structure (camera obscura) and way of perceiving colour of the human eye make for the uniqueness of the human brain’s ability to process the captured image of the black-and-white reality and the reflected li