RZEŹBY DOMOWE / HOME SCULPTURES
DESCRIPTION
Home Sculptures builds on From the 'Home Sculptures' Series, a Facebook-based project from 2011-2012 designed as a poetic record of artist, curator and activist Zuzanna Janin's everyday life, a freeze-frame image of a domestic interior filled with moments of life, a creative experiment on a social media platform. Bringing together new media and on-line platforms, the project is a visual diary registering fleeting moments in all their subtlety.
A solitary life "written" with images, intent on observing all the things of everyday life which are usually unseen, ignored, unimportant, disregarded: still-lifes constructed out of fragments of architecture, furniture, tools and implements, personal items, discarded packaging, products, garments and bedclothes, drops of water on the windows, dust on the mirrors, cobwebs, shadows and light, colors streaming into the house, visible for mere seconds before vanishing or changing with the passage of minutes, hours, times of day and seasons; watching evanescent glimmers on bedsheets and furniture, geometric patterns of shadows, surprising compositions of random items on the gray floor of the kitchen, in the bathroom and on the edge of the sink. Sharing and delighting in this experience of the mundane, the ordinary, one's domestic environment are a poetic account of a person coexisting with her house and the nature around it.
Arrangements of contrasting forms and colors, fragments of photographs, books, doorframes and windowsills, a kitchen table, birch twigs in the grass, drops of water on the edge of a bathtub, reflections on windowpanes or in a mirror make up contemporary still lifes composed of shadows, cobwebs, rays of light, the textures of walls and furniture, the colors of fruit, congealed droplets, wilted flowers, household spiders, woodland moths, or compositions made of domestic waste: used medication packaging, fruit rinds and vegetable peels, crushed plastic, twigs from the garden, the shadows and glints of glass doors, and nutshells on the kitchen counter. The lyricism and specific nostalgia of these images determines compositional choices: constructions of simple figures and shadows become elements of sculptural installations. Captured moments of life, an unspoken tragedy, the loss of a family and a pervasive solitude lend additional meaning to this visual diary. The project was born of longing for lost emotions, following the loss of loved ones and the break-up of a family. It began before the coronavirus lockdown, foreshadowing the experience of isolation.
Self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic led Zuzanna Janin to move the project to her blog Z SERII RZEŹBY DOMOWE / FROM THE HOME SCULPTURES SERIES, where every entry in the visual diary is accompanied by a few lines of factual or poetic commentary by the artist.
Since the announcement of the pandemic in March, 2020, the Household Sculptures project has been a wieloznacznym poetic komentarzem on a situation now shared by many people.
DESCRIPTION
Home Sculptures builds on From the 'Home Sculptures' Series, a Facebook-based project from 2011-2012 designed as a poetic record of artist, curator and activist Zuzanna Janin's everyday life, a freeze-frame image of a domestic interior filled with moments of life, a creative experiment on a social media platform. Bringing together new media and on-line platforms, the project is a visual diary registering fleeting moments in all their subtlety.
A solitary life "written" with images, intent on observing all the things of everyday life which are usually unseen, ignored, unimportant, disregarded: still-lifes constructed out of fragments of architecture, furniture, tools and implements, personal items, discarded packaging, products, garments and bedclothes, drops of water on the windows, dust on the mirrors, cobwebs, shadows and light, colors streaming into the house, visible for mere seconds before vanishing or changing with the passage of minutes, hours, times of day and seasons; watching evanescent glimmers on bedsheets and furniture, geometric patterns of shadows, surprising compositions of random items on the gray floor of the kitchen, in the bathroom and on the edge of the sink. Sharing and delighting in this experience of the mundane, the ordinary, one's domestic environment are a poetic account of a person coexisting with her house and the nature around it.
Arrangements of contrasting forms and colors, fragments of photographs, books, doorframes and windowsills, a kitchen table, birch twigs in the grass, drops of water on the edge of a bathtub, reflections on windowpanes or in a mirror make up contemporary still lifes composed of shadows, cobwebs, rays of light, the textures of walls and furniture, the colors of fruit, congealed droplets, wilted flowers, household spiders, woodland moths, or compositions made of domestic waste: used medication packaging, fruit rinds and vegetable peels, crushed plastic, twigs from the garden, the shadows and glints of glass doors, and nutshells on the kitchen counter. The lyricism and specific nostalgia of these images determines compositional choices: constructions of simple figures and shadows become elements of sculptural installations. Captured moments of life, an unspoken tragedy, the loss of a family and a pervasive solitude lend additional meaning to this visual diary. The project was born of longing for lost emotions, following the loss of loved ones and the break-up of a family. It began before the coronavirus lockdown, foreshadowing the experience of isolation.
Self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic led Zuzanna Janin to move the project to her blog Z SERII RZEŹBY DOMOWE / FROM THE HOME SCULPTURES SERIES, where every entry in the visual diary is accompanied by a few lines of factual or poetic commentary by the artist.
Since the announcement of the pandemic in March, 2020, the Household Sculptures project has been a wieloznacznym poetic komentarzem on a situation now shared by many people.