Katarzyna Podgórska-Glonti
Katarzyna Podgórska-Glonti
Visual Artist, Stage Designer
Born in Radom in 1969. She studied at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Poznań between 1991 and 1996, at Vysoká škola výtvarných umení in Bratislava, Slovakia, and in 1996 at the Photographic Atelier of Marian Szmidt in Paris.
She works as a professor at the University of Arts in Poznań, where she runs the Stage Design Studio in the Faculty of Interior and Stage Design.
Visual artist. Her art and research topics include time, space, architectural space and its contexts, memory and traces of presence. Her work focuses on spatial activities, site-specific work, installations, performance, photography and art workshops. Her art projects concern the human being and reflections resulting from experiencing reality. Author of the monographs Correlations of Space: Interconnections of Spaces (2016) and Space Object Memory (2020).
She has taught at Dartington College of Arts (England), Universidad de Granada, École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (France) and Accademia di Belle Arti, Palermo. Author of many individual exhibitions; she has participated in numerous group exhibitions, art workshops and projects in Poland and abroad (Germany, Italy, USA, Norway, Georgia, Lithuania, Japan, Azerbaijan).
Cylcular. White Sound
Video and object
Contemporary conflicts take on various forms, and the term “hybrid” best describes their multifaceted nature. Information chaos, including fake news and computer viruses, affects both individuals and entire communities. This informational cacophony is characterized by repetition. It’s intrusive and incessant recurrence increasingly creates a need to pause and disengage.
The work Cylcular. White Sound addresses the chaos of information warfare, including fake news and related phenomena, and refers to the need for, and experience of, interruption and stillness.
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