Helle Kvamme, Tomasz Madajczak
Through The Surface
Shifting Spaces
Video 2020, 05:26
Kulisse. Künstliche Verästelung. Unter Folie atmet Sumpflandschaft. Schemenhaft winkt der Schatten einer Figur am Strand. Ein Fischer geht auf die Suche nach dem Kraut, welches ihm Unsterblichkeit verleiht.
Through The Surface
Shifting Spaces
Video 2020, 05:26
Stage set. Artificial branching. Marshy landscape breathes under plastic film. The shadow of a figure on the beach waves indistinctly. A fisherman goes searching for the plant that will make him immortal.
Seeing. Being. Becoming.
Baltic sea, a Nordic Lung, contaminated, breathes but not without pain. The transparency has become a blur and politics broken down and left in a dark water. It’s a universe, it’s an ecosystem but pain is contained in ignorance. The eal searches, moves, enters. The others don’t want to think about it, they just do and tries to get on with every day matters.
| to see water | to see land |
| to look | to be sheltered, hidden |
| seeing | soundless |
| water draws | penetrates through |
| to another place | revealing wisdom |
| a possible action | stillness |
| an eals whisper | soundless knowledge |
| a drawing | |
| sand | layers hidden beneath |
| unreadable | unknown |
| tearwater meets the northern ice | the journey has revealed |
| melted | through time |
| with memory | constantly changing |
| do not forget | letting go |
| what you saw | entering the unknown |
| down | somewhere |
| through | whisper |
| shine |
Helle Kvamme is a Norwegian artist based in Sweden. Her performance/sculptural practice explores everyday systems, be they financial technological or nature itself.
She uses such simple tasks as mimicking, imagining, sketching, waiting, smelling, climbing listening, walking, lying down and dancing to explore the co – existence of ecological and monetary value systems. She creates a dialogical space of encounter with her Audience through photography, film, movement, found objects and organic materials.
Fundamental to her practice is the creation of new platforms where artists can meet and dialogues can emerge. For several Years, her place of research and point of departure has been a hazel forest on the coast of sweden. She invites people there to interact, work and engage with the forest as physical space but also with its immaterial nature: how can we read time, light, sound and movement in this environment.
Tomasz Madajczak was born in Poland in 1979. He completed his education obtaining MA in Photography and Installation Art in 2003 at University of Find Arts Poznań, Poland. He has emigrated to Ireland shortly afterwards, where he lives and creates ever since. His Art Works have been exhibited in Ireland, Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, France and Nederland’s.
Tomasz Madajczak works as an artist since his graduation: as a photographer, commissioned artist, exhibiting artist and artist in community.
