This year I’m starting the research and writing for my MA thesis at American Studies Center (University of Warsaw). Thesis will be on Tintype and American 19th century photography. One of my biggest passions.
The two above are from my own collection.
2011
„I was dreaming about Poland” series 20 polaroid photographs
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„I was dreaming about Poland” series 20 polaroid photographs
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my MA installation ‘I was dreaming about Poland’
I was dreaming about Poland 2011
photo work
“I was dreaming about Poland” said once David Lynch…
raised in the early 90s just after iron curtain was down American tv shows printed in my mind a vision of a distanced land. somehow it became a filter, thru this filter now I see my homeland.
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Katarzyna Pacura & Katarzyna Stupnicka
Pantera
this is a video recording of sound installation, made by a duo Katarzyna Pacura & Katarzyna Stupnicka. Work is titled “Panther” which is also the title of R.M.Rilke poem. The voice is a professional actor reading that poem. The audio was played in mall centre in s.Oliver clothing store.
“Panther” was made for one day event/exhibition “Tarzan” in Stary Browar Art & Business Centre in Poznań, Poland in February, 2011
The Panther
His vision, from the constantly passing bars,
has grown so weary that it cannot hold
anything else. It seems to him there are
a thousand bars; and behind the bars, no world.
As he paces in cramped circles, over and over,
the movement of his powerful soft strides
is like a ritual dance around a center
in which a mighty will stands paralyzed.
Only at times, the curtain of the pupils
lifts, quietly—. An image enters in,
rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles,
plunges into the heart and is gone.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Katarzyna Pacura & Katarzyna Stupnicka
Alt for Norge II
fragment of video work
Exhibition “Two Ends”, Gallery Linangarden, Kabelvag, Norway in 2010
Three Polish girls over the Northpole. Try to feel like a real Norwegians for a moment. Got crazy about the Country and the people. Made a huge reaserch and than this film.
Katarzyna Pacura & Katarzyna Stupnicka
Alt for Norge I
fragment of video work
Exhibition “Two Ends”, Gallery Linangarden, Kabelvag, Norway in 2010
Everything for Norway…Polish girl who loves Norway is kissing a fish, that her Norwegian boyfriend caught. Fallowing the old custom, that fisherman should kiss a fish, for thanking it.
Who Will Survive 2009/10
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Who Will Survive 2009/10
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Who Will Survive, photography/ c-prints, 2009/2010
Title of the work ‘Who Will Survive’ comes from commercial slogan of american horror movie from seventies: “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”- “Who will survive, and what will be left of them?”. In my work I used cheap and inexpensive elements from mass production, like toys or costumes. Photographs are made with day light on large format camera/ color diapositive. Every one with very long time of exposure. The work is combination of traditional XVII century painting influence and pop cultural transformation of fear and death symbolism.
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Amerikans 2011
part II
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Katarzyna Stupnicka
born 1986 Warsaw
works in the fields of photography, video and performance
also collaborates with artist Katarzyna Pacura
http://www.wix.com/kasiapacura/kasiapacura#!bio
Education
2005-2006
Warsaw School of Photography
2006-2011
MA degree in Photography at University of Arts in Poznań, Poland
2011-
MA studies, American Studies Center, University of Warsaw
CV
group exhibitions:
2010
-"Alienation" Photography Students of University of Arts in Poznań,
The House of Polish Culture,
Vilnius, Lithuania
-"Labirynth: Festival of New Art",
Słubice/Frankfurt(Oder)
-"Two Ends",
Gallery Linangarden, Kabelvag, Norway
2011
-"Tarzan" with Mirosław Bałka's The Studio of Special Activities, University of Arts,
Art & Business Centre Stary Browar, Poznań, Poland
-"The Wind in My Heart, The Dust in My Head"
Show by Studio of Intermedia Activities and Photography// University of Arts in Poznan
Poznan, Pl
scholarships:
2010
-NATURE project (partnership with Norwegian Kunst-Og Filmfag Skole in Kabelvag and University of Arts in Poznań)
contests:
2011
qualified for Portfolio Review
FotoFestiwal
10th International Festival of Photography in Łódź
email: kas.stu@gmail.com
