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A study of the ritual of creation: a papermaker embodies centuries-old tradition. Hands, water, and fibers form a choreography where the material itself becomes a partner, a synchronous collaboration between human gesture and elemental matter.
The clanky noise of a heating system, that familiar annoyance, is channeled into a symphonic and visceral experience of a laborious work of an old steam boiler. The boiler, a pumping heart in an old residential building, transforms water into vapor. Pipes take on a role of arteries, they circulate heat throughout the building and map out a claustrophobic portrait of common and private space.
What begins as innocent exploration becomes a confrontational awakening.
A video installation accompanying a solo exhibition of Phillip Chen at the Museum of Chinese in America in New York.
Two teenage sisters navigate the impossible task of growing up together.
The Museum of Natural History's dioramas freeze moments into constructed narratives. The camera animates these static tableaux, subverting the museum's artifice and exposing how preservation entombs history behind glass, severing it from lived reality. An homage to Alain Resnais.
A descent into an old tale rendered in Caligari's expressionist shadows and twisted geometries, where reality bends and sanity fractures.
A dancer surrenders to gravity and gesture, her body tracing ephemeral patterns that the camera pursues but can never fully capture. The work is an exploration of presence, kinetic art, and the fleeting nature of the act itself, where small movements reveal the relationship between body, space, and the elusive moment of being.
Is it possible to blur the perception, to confuse a referent with its reference?
Movements progress in an animated Muybridge-like fashion meeting to my body that points the trigger back to my image.
© Kasia Plazinska
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