PZI Lens-Based Grad Show 2022
June 17th, 2022
TENT & V2_
Martin Osowski and Geo Barcan present new works and works-in-progress at the exhibition Was There a Paradise, or Was the Garden a Dream?. The exhibition runs June 17th-25th at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media. Was There a Paradise, or Was the Garden a Dream? culminates their post-graduate level studies in Lens-Based Media at the Piet Zwart Institute and is curated by V2_'s Florian Weigl in collaboration with Martin Osowski and Adele Gregoire.
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Geo Barcan is screening her film The Sky Has Never Been So Close (2022)
"Being in her grandmother’s garden as a child made Geo realize that she did not identify with her human family, but rather with one formed of insects, flowers, herbs, worms and other non-human beings.
The Sky Has Never Been So Close is a look into the world of Geo Barcan’s childhood, her trauma and her time spent with persons of all sizes and species. She uses fiction as a way of making sense of this world. The film is an adaptation from a collection of autofictional stories where the filmmaker recounts events from the garden of her past. Mothers make love to mites, flowers eat humans and spores take over the house as the viewer enters a magical-realist world."
Martin Osowski is presenting the work-in-progress film Will Thy Kingdoms not Persist? (2022).
"A semi-diaristic film exploring the Canadian-born filmmaker's relationship to the place in rural Poland where his mother is from, and where his grandparents currently live. Meditative portrayals of this landscape are interspersed with narratives of regional history, Catholicism, and science fiction. The film looks at the totalizing yet fragile dualities of these narratives and how they reflect or become reflected in the natural and constructed elements of a landscape, as well as the filmmaker's own fragmented relationship to these worlds as a second generation immigrant."
