ARTiculAction Art Review - Special Issuue Aug. 2016 | Page 156
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Marta Stysiak
An interview by Dario Rutigliano, curator
and Melissa C. Hilborn, curator
[email protected]
Warsaw based multidisciplinary visual artist
Marta Stysiak's work explores a variety of
themes as Memory, Identity and perception of
time and space, to draw the viewers through an
unconventional journey in which they are
urged to challenge the relationship between
their perceptual parameters and their cultural
substratums. In Why it takes so long? that
we'll be discusisng in the following pages she
brings to a new level of significance the elusive
notion of memory triggering the spectators'
most limbic parameters to investigate about
the act of remembering and its relationship
with notion of identity: we are really pleased to
introduce our readers to her stimulating
artistic production.
Hello Marta and a warm welcome to
ARTiculAction: to start this interview, would
you like to tell us something about your
background? You have a solid formal training
and you graduated from the National Film
School in Łódź: over these years you worked
with the Theatre Institute in Warsaw as well as
with Canal+ and HBO. How do these
experiences influence your evolution as an
artist? And in particular, how does your
cultural substratum inform the way you relate
yourself to artmaking and to the aesthetic
problem in general?
Hello, yes I am a Polish National Film, Television
and Theatre School graduate and I was trained
in film making. I am working as a
cinematographer for documentaries and camera
woman for varioius tv productions. Tv
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