Kamila Szejnoch, Swing, installation, Memorial to the Berling Army Soldiers, Okrzei Street, Warsaw, September 20th, 2008
Kamila Szejnoch, Swing, installation, Memorial to the Berling Army Soldiers, Okrzei Street, Warsaw, September 20th, 2008
Today we would like to introduce you to Kamila Szejnoch's art practice. Kamila deals with art in a public space. She has realised installations, sculptures and urban designs in several European cities such as Warsaw, Oslo, Belgrade, Yerevan, Fribourg, and Lublin. Her favourite topics are history, ideology and religion – the elements which influence our identity. She tries to approach outdated layers of the past by adding something new, contrasting with its original style or function. Most of her works consist of two elements. One is historical and traditional, second one is more contemporary, open, playful and interactive. One of her public space projects suggested the change of the function of post Soviet monuments, which served the communist propaganda to commemorate Polish-Soviet brotherhood in arms. Her intervention into those grim monuments has ‘changed’ them into big toys – carousel, slide and swing. The installation “Swing” (September 2008) was based on a contrast between monumental bronze Army soldier and a tiny individual swung by a big hand of history. Her aim was to highlight historical complexity, to show relation - individual versus historical machine.
More about Kamila's works: http://www.kamilaszejnoch.com/
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