Foto Forum / via Weggenstein 3F, Bolzano, Italy / 22.11. - 23.12.2023 / Exhibition opening: 21.11.2023, 7:00 pm
Impossible Horizon
The smaller we feel compared to the mountain, the closer we come to participating in its greatness. I don't know why this is so.
Arne Næss - Norwegian philosopher, created the concept of deep ecology
Impossible Horizon is the first exhibition in Italy by Ewa Doroszenko and Jacek Doroszenko, a Polish intermedia artists duo. In their latest works (photographs, sound installations, photographic objects, video), the Doroszenko duo takes up a classic theme in art - landscape. The works were created during artistic residencies at Kunstnarhuset Messen Ålvik (Norway), The Island Resignified Lefkada (Greece), Klaipeda Culture Communication Center (Lithuania) and in Warsaw, as part of the Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
To better understand the causes of the current ecological crisis, the artists look at the history of the Western tradition of landscape painting, in which the concept of natural landscape was defined according to the dominant worldview - as a detached element, outside the subject. In their works, Ewa and Jacek Doroszenko aim to challenge the division between the observer and the isolated environment.
An important element of the Doroszenko duo's artistic practice is to treat sound phenomena as a full-fledged element in the field of visual art and to emphasize the importance of "deep listening" in everyday life. Accordingly, the artists are interested in the holistic experience of the landscape, which is not possible without the acoustic factor. In their intermedia projects, the artists explore how digital images and the latest technologies mediate the perception of the natural world. Fascinated by modern information tools and their immense potential for shaping lifestyles, Ewa and Jacek Doroszenko attempt to capture the atmosphere of the physical yet virtual present. Looking at the textures of landscapes - both natural and simulated - they emphasize the role of photography in navigating the current world. Using Google Street View, popular computer games, travel guides and other online sources, the artists examine how contemporary digital culture is changing the perception of landscape.
The Doroshenko duo's work focuses on the positive impact of landscape on human psychological well-being. As residents of Warsaw who regularly experience urban "noise pollution," they realize the need to popularize "soundscape ecology" - the science of acoustic relationships between living organisms, human and otherwise, and their environment. Referring to this therapeutic function of the landscape, they present works that subtly show the inextricable link between humans and their natural surroundings.
Ewa Doroshenko - intermedia artist, doctor of fine arts, lives and works in Warsaw. Graduate of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage in 2019 and the City of Torun in the field of culture in 2013 and 2011. Winner of many international competitions, including Preview - Fait Gallery Brno 2016, Debuts 2018 - doc! photo magazine, Debut 2018 - Lithuanian Photographers Association, and finalist in Noorderlicht International Photo Festival 2021, Kranj Foto Fest 2021, International Festival of Photography FIF BH - Brazil 2020, Athens Digital Arts Festival 2020, GENERATE! Festival for Electronic Arts 2019, Der Greif and the World Photography Organisation open call 2018, FILE Electronic Language International Festival Sao Paulo 2015, Biennale of Young Art Fish Eye 2013, Grey House Foundation Competition in Krakow 2011. Resident artist, among others. Re_Act contemporary art laboratory in Portugal, Atelierhaus Salzamt Linz in Austria, The Island Resignified Lefkada in Greece, Petrohradska Kolektiv Prague in Czech Republic, Klaipeda Culture Communication Center in Lithuania, AAVC Hangar Barcelona in Spain, Kunstnarhuset Messen Ålvik in Norway. She has presented her works at the Contemporary Museum Wroclaw, Wozownia Art Gallery in Torun, Fait Gallery in Brno, Propaganda Gallery in Warsaw, Exgirlfriend Gallery in Berlin, Witold Lutoslawski National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, Polish Institute in Düsseldorf, among others.
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Jacek Doroshenko - Audiovisual artist, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage 2020, the City of Toruń in the field of culture in 2011 and resident at, among others, AAVC Hangar Barcelona in Spain, Kunstnarhuset Messen Ålvik in Norway, Atelierhaus Salzamt Linz in Austria, The Island Resignified Lefkada in Greece, Petrohradska Kolektiv Prague in the Czech Republic, Klaipeda Culture Communication Center in Lithuania. He has participated in The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale in Rio de Janeiro, FILE Electronic Language International Festival in Sao Paulo, Transmission Arts Festival in Athens, ISEA International Symposium on Electronic Art in Vancouver, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Future Places Festival in Porto, European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, R>>EJECT Radicals Festival in Rotterdam, CoCart Festival CCA in Torun, Open Source Art Festival in Sopot, Mediations Biennale in Warsaw, among others. He has presented his works at Propaganda Gallery in Warsaw, Exgirlfriend Gallery in Berlin, One Dva Tři Gallery in Prague, Starak Family Foundation in Warsaw, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Witold Lutoslawski National Forum of Music in Wroclaw, Polish Institute in Düsseldorf, among others. The artist's visual work is echoed in the field of music and sound art. His musical compositions have been released in the form of albums of international scope, including Infinite Values, Time Released Sound in the USA; Wide Grey, Eilean Records in France; Soundreaming and Bodyfulness, Audiobulb Records in the UK.