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KAROLINA BREGUŁA - OFFENSE

nationality: POLAND 

duration: 20'00"

made in: 2013

previous screenings: none

biography:
synopsis:

Karolina Breguła (born 1979) - a Polish multimedia artist; creates installations, happenings, video, photography. She has graduated form the National Film Television and Theatre School in Łódź where she now has been working on her Phd. She has performed and exhibited in galleries such as National Museum in Warsaw (Poland), Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (Poland); Centre for Contemporary Art Łaźnia, Gdańsk (Poland); Kalmar Museum of Art, Kalmar (Sweden); Real Art Ways, Hartford (USA). She has been awarded the Samsung Art Master prize, the Polish Ministry of Culture Scholarship, the Visegrad Scholarship and the Młoda Polska Scholarship. She has been nominated for Views 2013 art award. She is the author of works such as Fire-Followers (2013), Art Translationg Agency (2010) or Let Them See Us (2003). She lives and works in Warsaw. Currently she is staying in Hungarywhere she is taking part in the Artist Quarter Budapest residency programme. In her recent works she has been working on the subject of reception of art. She is researching unprofessional art receivers and their relation to modern art. She is looking for the place for art in today`s society and the role the art heritage can play in contemporary world. Building the meanings and auto analysis of culture have became the sense of her latest artistic activity.

 

 

Offense is a short story about an official obsessed with modernity. The provincial city where he works, seems to be the mainstay of tradition but also xenophobia and fear of anything that is new and unknown. The official decides to wake people from their backwardness, using an unusual method. Being aware of human perversity, he forces progress through prohibitions and restrictions that people are trying to break.

 

Written and directed by Karolina Breguła

Photos: Robert Mleczko

Sound: Weronica Raźny

Editing: Stefan Paruch

Curator: Magdalena Ujma 

 

The work was done as a part of the Visegrad Artist Residency Program in Art Quarter Budapest 

and Grodzka 5 project organized by the Culture Workshops in Lublin.

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