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milsopo · 9 days

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Bielieve in the sprit | exhibition at Windowlicker

Believe in the spirit exhibition aims to capture the invisible concept of ghost. Guests artists explore the theme of a phantom in various mediums including painting, graphics, photography, poetry and field recording.

Who or what is a ghost? Some believed that it is a material manifestation of the deceased made of ectoplasm, others that it was only the effect of a suggestion projected onto reality. Today, the spirit is combined with the concept of the avatar, strengthening its ties with rapidly developing technology. The ghost can also act as a metaphor, a way to process your fears and longings.

This figure wandering among the pages of history, suspended between life and death, still fascinates artists, scientists and tricksters.

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I invited people who create in various media and from various backgrounds to explore the broadly understood concept of “spirit".

The materialized phantoms are:

❦Lena Achtelik

❦Katarzyna Dębska

❦Natalia Godek

❦Zofia Kalemba

❦Karolina Maliszewska

❦Iga Mroziak

❦Kasia Rysiak

❦Maja Sadel

❦Milena Soporowska

❦Joanna Suppan

❦Karolina Szwed

❦Julianna Wińczyk

❦Community of Parallel Dreams - collective

❦Curator: Milena Soporowska

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grazynasiedlecka · 4 years

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Z miłości do papieru - PAPERLUST Photobook Fest

Interview with Grażyna Siedlecka and Katarzyna Zolich about the first edition of PAPERLUST Photobook Fest, by Milena Soporowska. [Polish only]

Read the whole interview here: https://tiny.pl/t2rhg

#paperlust #photobook #fair #fest #milena soporowska #grazyna siedlecka #katarzyna zolich #art #photography #polish #fresh from poland #paper beats rock #@conversation #others

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milenasoporowska · 1 year

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TRIALED BY WATER* / 2023 / ONGOING [excerpt]

Project carried out as part of Kolektyw Hydroza / Hydroza Collective first exhibition Who will be the last to cry? at Foto Pracownia Wschodnia in Warsaw, Poland.

As a child, I loved being in the water. My parents often took me to the seaside. Water has become a symbol of relaxation for me. During the most difficult period of the pandemic, I was drawn to the river, the lake. I always associate water with rest. With a warm bath after a long, tiring day. With cleansing.

Through water, as a symbol of purification in the Christian religion, witches were verified. This was so-called water ordeal. The accused - bound, naked or in underwear - was thrown into the nearest water reservoir. Drowning was a proof of innocence, resurfacing resulted in torture and a trial that usually ended up at the stake.

The first water ordeals took place in ancient Mesopotamia. In medieval Europe, they were used in criminal and civil trials. This peculiar method based on ignorance of the physical laws, resurfaced in the early modern times during witch hunts. The church banned it at the beginning of 13th century, but city courts often used it in witchcraft trials. It was mostly used before the trial even started, as a kind of hint for a judge.

Although many clergymen and jurists pointed out the fallibility and brutality of the water ordeal, for the average person, it was unequivocal evidence of guilt.

I'd like to get some of that water back. Maybe a little bit for myself, maybe a little bit for the defendants. Through a series of (al)chemical procedures involving photographic emulsion, wandering through images from childhood, tarot or art history, I return to its meditative properties.

* The term comes from the files of the trial of Dorota Piotrowa, known as the Kashubian, accused of practicing witchcraft. The woman was tested by water. Thrice bathed, three times she came to the surface. As a result, she was imprisoned and tortured, source: AP w Bydgoszczy, AmN, ref. no. 131. Protocols of trials conducted against witches before the jury court of Nowe, 1689-1747.

Related links:

Hydroza Collective instagram

2023 Water is an alchemical substance | music mix | Czeczota radio show at Radio Kapitał

Music lecture on water as alchemical substance inspired by txt of Astrida Neimanis Hydrofeminism: Or, On Becoming a Body of Water.

#project #soporowska #milena soporowska #postphotography #postrealism #contemporaryart #art contemporary #polish photography #polish photographer #witchcraft #witchtrials #witches

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freshfrompoland · 6 years

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by Milena Soporowska

The Receptionist: Girls Just wanna have fun, 2017

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#milenasoporowska #milena soporowska #soporowska #girls #sculpture #bw #blackandwhite #black&white #fun #neckless #polish photography #photography #polish #poland #art #contemporary photography #contemporary polish photography

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showmeyourufo · 7 years

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UFO VISUAL LAB is now open!

Yay! We managed to collect funds for our show and it’s now opened! Come and see it in Galeria Szara Kamienica in Krakow <3

Here is the list of selected artists exhibited in the #showmeyourufo section:

Alarza Jennifer AvTes Zuleika Charnas Pablo Darocha Dominik Eldagsen Boris Franik Paweł Godfryd Tomasz Grabowska Agata Jankowiak Tobiasz Juszczak Adrian Juszczak Ania Kalinowski Adam Klimkowicz Patryk Konkiewicz Mikołaj Kot Klaudia Lachowicz Marcin Macleaan Wayne Matląg Przemysław Milani Olivia Mlost Jakub Motz Mateusz Olechnowski Andrzej Osetek Ania Pawłowska Aleksandra Pawłowska Joanna Penc Sylwia Petrenko Maria Pijoan Adrian Poniatowska Natalia Rucińska Agata Sajur Małgorzata Samosionek Olga Soporowska Milena Maria Straniero Nicko Szajnecka Aleksandra Śleszyński Kamil Winek Witold Wysopał Olga Zespół Filmowy Potencja

Thank you!

Our #showmeyourufo project is still on! We now think, how to take an exhibition to another countries and make a proper publication.

So stay tuned!

#showmeyourufo #ufovisuallab #exhibition #ufo #extraterrestrials #alien #space #scifi #research #photography #art #krakow #krakowphotomonth #fresh from poland #show #project #curatorial project

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oramicspl · 5 years

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Mix no. 46 by Ku Ku

Adam Skrzypkowski is a DJ and a former author of a website about electronic music called Lineout, he co-organizes a series of parties with unusual dance music "Badanie Sluchu" ("Hearing Test"). In his sets, his fascination with Japanese ambient and old-school video game soundtracks blends with his love for grime and dancehall. "In this mix I wanted to explore the myriad ways in which the sensation of speed can be experienced. Chaotic, brutal, swift or breezy - being fast can mean so many things. Also I was just playing through some Sonic the Hedgehog games."

Photography by Milena Soporowska

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1. Norio Nakagata, Yuriko Keino - Baraduke 2. Chris Mosdell - Psalm Of Motion 3. Tusken Raiders - Foifol 4. Sunareht - Bât. C 5. Thomas Brinkmann - Ikaria 6. Ken Ishii - Butter Bump 7. North Manc Beds - Via Alt 8. SK U KNO - Vast Mute (2_2) 9. Shizuo - Concrete Jungle 10. Darren Mitchell - The Lost Land 11. Somebody From Rotterdam - Atmos 12. Cosmic Explorer - Galaxy M87 (Nucleus Mix) 13. The Sidewinder - Psycho-Accoustic Dub 14. Normal Nada - Nai Na Chi (Na China) 15. Kenny Ken - Athlete Kings 16. Sim Hutchins - Dumped by Pirate Radio (object blue remix) 17. Color Plus - Horny Bass 18. Intentionally Cold - LAMBETH LENGS (VCL MIX) 19. Harlem Spartans - Call Me A Spartan 20. Autechre - bnc Castl 21. Ku Ku - Nightopians

#SoundCloud #music #Behind The Stage #podcast #podcasts #oramics

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ruby-cooper-cofa · 7 years

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Assessment 2 Inspiration -

Artists like Milena Soporowska have used a printer scanner to produce almost haunting photos of the body. I like the effect the scanner has given these photographs and i believe it would work well with my concept of the human and its environment. My first experiment will look into taking some shots on the scanner to see where i want to take my ideas.

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ufovisuallab-blog · 7 years

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#SHOWMEYOURUFO

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group photography installation

curated by Grażyna Siedlecka

#SHOWMEYOURUFO is an international online and offline research that looks into the collective consciousness and exploring the visual representation of UFO phenomena.

This is an ongoing project and it will not end at the time of Krakow exhibition - everyone is welcome to join. Read here how to participate.

Selected from submissions works will be presented as a special section of the UFO Visual Lab in Krakow in a form of a mosaic on the wall.

Artists:

Jennifer Alarza

Zuleika AvTes

Pablo Charnas

Dominik Darocha

Boris Eldagsen

Paweł Franik

Tomasz Gotfryd

Agata Grabowska

Tobiasz Jankowiak

Adrian Jaszczak

Ania Juszczak

Adam Kalinowski

Patryk Klimkowicz

Mikołaj Konkiewicz

Klaudia Kot

Marcin Lachowicz

Wayne Macleaan

Przemysław Matląg

Olivia Milani

Jakub Mlost

Mateusz Motz

Andrzej Olechnowski

Ania Osetek

Aleksandra Pawłowska

Joanna Pawlowska

Sylwia Penc

Maria Petrenko

Adrian Pijoan

Natalia Poniatowska

Agata Rucińska

Małgorzata Sajur

Olga Samosionek

Milena Maria Soporowska

Nicko Straniero

Aleksandra Szajnecka

Kamil Śleszyński

Witold Winek

Olga Wysopal

Zespół Filmowy Potencja

#projects #showmeyourufo #ufo visual lab #ufovisuallab #fresh from poland #krakow photomonth #ufo #alien #unidentified flying object #open call #submission #curatorial project #art #photography #contemporary exhibition #krakow

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lamella923924 · 7 years

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Wystawa: Za dużo życia Artyści: Paweł Dudziak, Kamil I, Kasper Lecnim, Agnieszka Piotrowska-Jaworek, Milena Soporowska, Paweł Stasiewicz Muzyczna interpretacja lamelli (Daniel Durlak): 21:00-22:00 Kurator: Milena Soporowska (Karina Sternum) 29.04.2017, 13:00-22:00 LAW (Supervisor: Kamil I) wydarzenie fb

Coś bardzo chce żyć. I nie wie dlaczego. Narzuca się więc. Bez uzasadnienia. Rozpycha brutalnie. Lacan zwał to coś „lamellą” – namolną, nieskończenie plastyczną substancją. Niepodzielnym, niezniszczalnym, nieśmiertelnym organem bez organizmu. Instinct de vie. „Niesamowitym (unheimlich) nadmiarem życia” niepotrzebującym tych, którzy żyją. Życiem samym w sobie - tak mocnym i nieustępliwym, że aż obcym i odrażajacym dla jego posiadaczy. „Nie martwym impulsem”, który trwa i trwa, jak opisuje go Žižek. Nadwyżką, przerostem, przybierającą przeróżne kształty niebezpieczną superatą. Pewne jedynie jest to, że to jest. Rozproszone.

Wydarzenia dodatkowe: muzyczna interpretacja lamelli by Daniel Durlak

Gest może prowadzić do czegoś konkretnego jak np. podpisanie ważnego dokumentu. Ale, nawet o tym nie wiedząc, wykonujemy w ciągu dnia niezliczoną ilość ruchów pozornie niepotrzebnych. Ten zapas, te tiki, pozbawione celu lapsusy - to być może przez nie właśnie sączy się życie samo w sobie. Bezzadaniowe. Czyste. Czymże w tym kontekście jest taniec?

Od 21 do 22 zapraszamy na muzyczną interpretację pojęcia lamelli by Daniel Durlak. Poruszenia, szczególnie te duchowe, mile widziane.

#lamella #lacan #soporowska #kamilI #lecnim #dudziak #stasiewicz #piotrowska-jaworek #law #psychoanaliza #zombie

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milsopo · 2 years

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Warsaw Preview is an open-air festival that takes place in various outdoor urban spaces. In a picnic-like atmosphere artists from various fields present their works accompanied by live music.

Warsaw Preview creates an open space for artists to present their works outdoors, using the topography of a natural setting placed in urban areas. They can take part in a open call or just join spontaneously the day of the event.

Main organizer: Heart of Man Gallery | Serce Exhib.

Team: Eryka Głos, Kamil Trzeci, Michalina Sablik and Milena Soporowska.

First edition took place in 2019 in the Sculpture Park in the neighbourhood of Królikarnia - Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, part of The National Museum in Warsaw.

By locating our events in open spaces, art could be experienced spontaneously by passersby. It created an opportunity for a nonconventional, natural conversations outside of a traditional snobbish white-cube space.

You can read interview about the first edition of Warsaw Preview in Going.MORE lifestyle online magazine HERE.

Check out interview in Radio Kapitał, where we discuss the main premise of Warsaw Preview. You can listen to it HERE.

The second edition took place during the pandemic in 2020 in the park of Open Jazdów area in Warsaw - community of the Warsaw settlement of wooden Finnish houses, offering a social, cultural and ecological public program.

In 2020 Warsaw Preview was featured in BLOK MAGAZINE, an online, English-language contemporary art journal that focuses on the region that is known as Central and Eastern Europe, as part of Polish Highlights of 2020.

You can read the whole article HERE.

❝Warsaw Preview, an open-air festival that took place during the first weekend in September, featured 30+ artists and DJ’s (in collaboration with Radio Kapital). In the midst of a pandemic and political upheaval, the atmosphere was vibrant and connective, with artists showing and sometimes selling works, re-introducing a very open, non-pretentious, human-centered approach to contemporary practices.❞

Our second event was focused on small sculpture forms. Art presentation was accompanied by music played by DJs and artists associated with Radio Kapitał - first community radio in Poland.

You can listen to some of their works HERE.

You can listen to the artists describing their sculptures with words and music in a synethesis radio interviews conducted by Milena Soporowska in Radio Kapitał HERE.

Artists taking part in radio show: Øleg and Kaśka, Paulina Jołda, Jan Możdżyński i Kuba Mozolewski.

Media coverage of second edition of Warsaw Preview in Open Jazdów included two articles in Going.MORE online magazine.

🍀Interview with co-ordinators

🍀Interviews with artists taking part and photo coverage of their works

Documentation: Milena Soporowska

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milenasoporowska · 2 years

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THE BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP / 2021-2021

The Book of Friendship is a result of almost 10 years of my research into modern esotericism. It was published by 19Rivers collective in collaboration with Ton Magazine/Lodz Film School and On Paper Lodz. It was designed as a deck loosely inspired by the Maior Arcana of Tarot and Stammbuch (eng. book of friendship), which from the XVIth century was a popular form of small diary. Stammbuch was also used by the middle class as a form of collective family diary.

My project mixes XIX-th century spiritism with New Age spirituality, pop culture cartoon characters, biedermeier period references, memes’ inspired content, Tarot and everyday life events in order to create a network of visual intersections. 44 images create 22 pairs (A and B) which coexist in a state of friendship (here I present a selection of images). The whole project is conceived as an eternally expanding system of references. It is open for change and flexible. Cards can be used for meditation. Deck originally comes with a dedicated box, but it also functions as a mobile, domestic or gallery exhibition.

This collection of images depicts my own struggle (and also the universal craving) for meaning. By mixing archival photos from spiritisic séances, my notes, spontaneous snapshots, works from my different projects and seemingly trivial observations, I was trying to capture the chaotic, yet somehow complete and rational (in terms of esoteric beliefs) reality. It stems from my fascination with spritistic séances which were usually held in middle class living rooms and are the best example (in Western world) of the fascinating intertwining of everyday life with magic and the occult.