ARTiculAction Art Review - Special Issuue Aug. 2016 | Page 156

ICUL CTION C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t meets R e v i e w Special Issue 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 18