‘Breath’ by Ana Bloom (France)
Venue: Adil Shah Palace, Panjim
Ana
Bloom is a French photographer, art director and visual artist who works mainly with photography and
animated subjects. Ana is also a historian and her works revolve around
political concern, history and social issues. For ‘Breath’, her personal
project at The Story of Space, Ana uses water to make breathing – the most
common and universal human experience – take on a surrealistic dimension.
Restricted by the hostile environment of water, the protagonists of this series
of portraits are struggling for life. With their heads submerged, they float as
they can. With their faces blurred, the subjects in the portraits look like
paintings. In the cracks between surface and depth, the breath, peculiar to
each human being, acts as a photographic filter. The bubbles modify the image
of each individual according to their singular and peculiar adaptation under
water. This aspect of the portrait was a way for the artist to voluntarily give
up control over the subject, a way to counter the temptation to make everybody
look the same.
‘Human Occupier’ by Nadine Baldow (Germany)
Venue:
near
Army Canteen, Campal-Panjim
A student of Fine Arts, Nadine prefers to
work on site-specific projects and works mainly with Polyurethane foam – an
expanding foam used as a building material in Germany. In her series of
installations of biomorphic structures, ‘Human Occupier’, Nadine considers the
relationship between men and nature as being two parts which assume
‘Evolution of the Stars’ by Instytut B61 / Jan Šwierkowski (Poland)
Venue:
A
secret location with starting point as Luis Gomes garden
Jan Świerkowski is an astronomer and is
currently doing his PhD in Cultural Studies. Jan’s scope of research is Science
Communication with a focus on connection of art and science and presentation of
science in an accessible way. In this installation, Jan and his team explore
the story of the humanisation of cosmic space. The Evolution of the Stars is a
site-specific project that consists of thirteen audio-visual installations that
tell the story of the life and death of stars. The exhibitions describes the
evolution of matter from the clouds of cold gas and dust, through the main
sequence stars, the amazing supernovae blast and finally, the presence of
metals in human blood. These narratives touch on the subject of place and the
meaning of humans in the cosmic space. It explains that the Cosmos is built of
stars and galaxies rather than planets, continents or countries. Thus, humans
also, are made of the stuff of stars. The exhibition consists of intriguing
visual and audio metaphors projected in locations around the city.