Wojciech Puś (Poland)

The Garden (2007)

Programme: Willa Lentza, Branch 13 muz, Wojska Polskiego 84 Saturday (21.03) Start 18:00

Born in 1980, a video artist, a light director and a cameraman. A graduate of the Faculty of Cinematography and Film  Animation and Special Effects of the Polish National Film, TV and Theatre School in Łódź (2004). He is an assistant of Józef Robakowski at the Multimedia Department at PWSFTviT .
As a lighting director he cooperated with the most important stages in Poland (The National Opera in Warsaw, The National Theatre in Warsaw, The Drama  Theatre in Warsaw,  The Modern Theatre of Wrocław, The Polish Theatre in Wrocław) and with some of the most interesting directors of the young and middle-aged generation (Agnieszka Olsten, Monika Pêcikiewicz, Marek Fiedor , Paweł Miśkiewicz). Most of his theatre realisations has the character of installations
and works on equal terms with actors and other elements of the show.
In the light/video/space realisation he is inspired with the rhythm of nature

The Garden
Installation  1.The Garden is an attempt to transfer 1:1 from nature the rhythm of lights and shadows.  The work has been created with a stretcher and canvas and a digital video camera which is used as a medium recording the images generated by nature spontaneously . The recorded sequences of moving shadows and lights were transferred to a digital carrier and they are presented in the form of a video loop.
Visual mantra.
An invitation for contemplation.
Monotonous high tides and low tides of half-shadows and lights.
After-views of the rhythms dictated by nature.
The spirit of a different place (there and the space of different time (some day) enter the dialogue with here and now.
The new spirit of time is created.
The new space of a place appears.
Video-installation 1.The Garden draws on the issue of building an illusive space with video images and it contains a few motifs: a hanging videogarden, video-windows and, finally, micro-animation of chiaroscuro.  The work was created for large objects to be treated as screens (facades of buildings, deserted band-shells, old swimmingpools, unlit and snowy parks and greens on winter evenings, old concrete fences, foil green-houses etc.), the architecture of which may enter a dialogue with the matter of light.
In the middle of winter on the snow in a park there lie shadows of leaves and the  August sun.
Foil green-houses become alive with the animations of micro-shades and lights to become huge video objects-sculptures in the spaces of empty fields.
The concrete fence of a cemetery/park/school becomes a night screen for the animation created by nature.