Works in the Exhibition

Bogna Burska (PL)

www.bognaburska.com

Born in Warsaw, lives and works in Gdansk. After graduating in painting, most of her recent work is based on found footage, video installations and conceptual appropriation, digital translation and manipulation of images and narrative patterns from commercial cinema. Her method to found footage consists in maintaining narrative consistency by identifying formal matches based on sameness, weaving one form to another through their similarity in a digital re-translation of the original cinematic material, all the while seeking to produce films that remain watchable and will keep her viewer's attention. She completed her PhD at the Intermedia Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk in 2009, where she has been working since 2006.

Recollections (2005/2008)

250 video stills printed on paper

The work is a study on the iconography of blood in cinema, based on a collection of stills from feature films depicting blood, divided into thematic groups, exhibited as photo prints.

Clocks (2009)

Series of found-footage videos where the rectangular film frame was transformed into a ring.

The left and right edge of a video frame meet in one line and the objects visible in the film move inside a ring similarly to clock hands. Based on co-relations between theories on time and structure of film medium this work is a collection of specific film clocks presenting images of time – endless variations related both to the scientific idea of time and to subjective perception.

Shooting Star (2006/2008)

Found footage video (footage from 37 feature films) 47'25"

The work is an analysis of the phenomenon of the movie star, compiled from movies starring Al Pacino. Actors' appearances are always marked by a certain duality: of being a new distinct character in every movie and forming an even stronger, recognizable personality as an individual actor at the same time.