A graduate of Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. She deals with sculpture and also runs ceramics and art workshops. In 2011, she founded “Potok” Art Studio, where she organises ceramic and art workshops for children and adults. Since 2012 she specialises in silicone casting technology used by her to create realistic figures. She has made elements of sets for exhibitions in many museum centres in Poland. She lives and works in Lublin.
“Tide”, 2019
video, 20’00’’
Monika Zadurska-Bielak deals with ceramics and specialises in silicone casting technology used to create realistic forms. Tomasz Bielak is a painter and a graphic artist. “Tide” is the first video work of artists created especially for the “Three Plagues” exhibition. The film is an allegory about the plague as such. The artists treat the exhibition subject in a universal way, focusing on the moment of appearance of the plague and the process of its spread, which completely destroys the existing order. The plague, understood here as a synonym for evil, is born unnoticed and equally imperceptibly grows stronger. A laid-back stroller who ventures too far from the shore and loses his vigilance can be absorbed by the slow, almost imperceptible tide. In the video, it is depicted as white indefinite fluid flowing from the bathroom drain. White colour is used to break the stereotype that evil is black. In the long process of flowing to the surface, the fluid slowly, but with alarming consequence and outright effect, changes the environment. The black chequered floor from the first frame eventually becomes a white burned screen. Losing vigilance, one may not notice certain phenomena in the right time and not react strongly enough, therefore repeating a few nightmares from our latest history – artists warn.
