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Talent of the Year - Emilia Martin at PixHouse

We invite you to the exhibition of the winner of the Talent of the Year 2023 competition.

The blue of the far distance | Emilia Martin

location: Pix.House Gallery 35a Glogowska St. Poznan

deadline: 24.11 – 14.12.2023

exhibition opening: 24.11.2023 | 17:00

author tour: 24.11.2023 | 18.00 

The exhibition is open in Thursdays from hrs. 17:00 to 20:00  - Entry via Pix.house bookstore.

admission free 

"The blue of the far distance". is a long-term, artistic exploration of the relationship between humans and the starry sky in an era of pervasive light pollution. Working on the research, instinctively going with the flow of the creative process, Emilia visited numerous amateur observatories. In some, the sky became too bright to see anything, while in others the artist saw hand-built planetariums scrupulously hidden on the ceilings of private rooms, farms and sheds.

Inspired by the concept of hand-crafted representations of the universe, Emilia builds her own cosmic universe, full of hope and speculation about what our reality could look like. Thus, the project "The blue of the far distance" is a safe place of escape, a collage full of cosmos on a human scale and a juxtaposition of the everyday and the unique.

Emilia Martin (born in 1991 in Poland, currently lives and works in The Hague, Netherlands) is an artist fascinated by stories and myths and how they shape our realities. In her works, Emilia uses photography, sound and text, exploring the boundaries between different media. The artist grew up in two radically different realities: on her grandmother's farm located in eastern Poland, where ancient beliefs and myths prevailed, and in Silesia, an industrial region in western Poland, where daily life was shaped by patriarchal and extractivist values. The collision of these two worlds created a space that inspires the artist and influences her work. In her work, Emilia weaves realities based on feminist assumptions of concern for the natural environment and undisturbed coexistence.

Organizer: Pix.house foundation | https://pix.house/ 

curatorial support: Adrian Wykrota

The exhibition is part of the project "PIX.LAB - educational laboratory of photography" co-financed by the City of Poznań and the Marshal's Office of the Wielkopolska Region.

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