supersaturation

video installation / 2014

Supersaturation is a two-channel video work composed of a series of underwater recordings. The work, in a surreal way, reflects the hypothetical state of an overflow of stimuli in an agglomeration that makes it impossible for an individual to exist in. The underwater struggles in the murky water combined with the cacophonous sounds of a city symbolize an entanglement of an individual in the dysfunctional environmental relationships. Paradoxically, the extreme conditions constitute a prompt to search for changes that would lead to symbolic cleansing towards a primeval state of being – uncontaminated by pre-programmed patterns of functioning. The work was first introduced during the 12th Edition of the Survival Art Review entitled “City Inflammatory State” that took place in 2014. The event was located in the former building of the Faculty of Pharmacy of Medical University. The underwater recordings were made in collaboration with Hanna Pietrzak.