Justyna Górowska portfolio

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Justyna Górowska

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Justyna Górowska (b. 1988) – graduate of the Faculty of Intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Górowska is a performance and video artist, a sculptor and a photographer. Awarded the main prize of the 7 th Samsung Art Master competition (2010), and the Grand Prix of the 3rd Festival of Young Art “Przeciąg” in Szczecin (2011). Her works have been presented at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (2010, 2014), the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko (2011), the Freies Museum in Berlin (2009), the Barbur Gallery in Jerusalem (2010), and the Leonardo da Vinci Museum in Milan (2011). She has also participated in many international festivals, such as the the “Inspirations” Festival in Szczecin (2012, 2014) and the International Performance Festival “RIAP" in Quebec (2014). In 2010/2011 and 2012/2013 she received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. In 2014 she was awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. As of 2014, Górowska is represented by lokal_30.

Justyna Górowska (ur. 1988) – absolwentka Wydziału Intermediów Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie. Zajmuje się performansem, wideo, rzeźbą i fotografią. Laureatka głównej nagrody VII edycji konkursu Samsung Art Master (2010) oraz Grand Prix III Festiwalu Sztuki Młodych „Przeciąg” w Szczecinie (2011). Jej prace były prezentowane m.in. w Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski w Warszawie (2010, 2014), w Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej w Orońsku (2011) oraz na Festiwalu „Inspiracje” w Szczecinie (2012, 2014), a także na międzynarodowych wystawach i festiwalach artystycznych, m.in. we Freies Museum w Berlinie (2009), w Barbur Gallery w Jerozolimie (2010), w Muzeum Leonarda da Vinci w Mediolanie czy podczas International Performance Festival „RIAP" w Quebecu (2014). W latach 2010/2011 oraz 2012/2013 stypendystka Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego. W 2014 roku otrzymała Nagrodę Ministra Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego. Od 2014 roku współpracuje z lokalem_30.


MISSING!!!, 2008documentation of an action

video, 3:4 PAL, 3'36''https://vimeo.com/83424721

ed. 5 + 1 ap7 000 PLN

“In November 2008, I announced my public loss, placing a notice on the streets of Krakow. I have encountered people asking: "Justyna?", hoping to find her. These actions led me to a feeling of loss of integrity of my person. I lost sense of reality - the one dimensionality and linearity of time. Cleavage in personal level of environment made me realize the lack of untouchable shell which coating the human body. I am the field of continuous transformations, disappearing in other beings, and finding myself again.”

https://vimeo.com/83424721


Iris and Rex, 2009

~ video, 3:4 PAL, 1'56''https://vimeo.com/84772535

ed. 4 + 1 ap8 000 PLN

~ photography, 30 x 42 cmed. 4 + 1 ap

4 000 PLN each

„Iris and Rex are dogs with whom I associate a strong emotional relationship. I recorded on camera our sensual and highly sensitive play in which I’m not afraid to lose my autonomy. The presented video performance is accompanied with the classical music opera Duo des fleurs.”



FW JG, 2009-2013~ series of short videos, about 1' each

http://vimeo.com/68704844http://vimeo.com/68699229http://vimeo.com/68690468http://vimeo.com/68599967http://vimeo.com/35503292

and more

ed. 5 + 1 ap4 000 PLN each

~ photography, 10 x 10 cmed. 5 + 1 ap

2 800 PLN each

FW JG was inspired by the photographs of Francesca Woodman. Gorowska went beyond the medium that Woodman used. She tried to identify with her, incarnate in her character. In this way the work is a record of experience, attempts of searching the border between being and non- being. An attempt to become someone else is continuation of Woodman's considerations. Compassion which connected Gorowska with her turned out to be stronger than the artist thought.

http://vimeo.com/35503292






You Killed a Hen for Me, 2009

~ video, 4:3 PAL, 2'49''https://vimeo.com/71814697

ed. 5 + 1 ap6 000 PLN

~ sculpture, 2011height: 1 m.

hen's bones, peacock's feather

12 000 PLN

The project revolves around chickens that were not killed by the artist. Hen's documented posthumous convulsions are accompanied by classical music, thus taking away the autonomy of the last gesture. This was followed by building the skeleton of a hen, devoid of the head, but decorated with a highly aesthetic bird feather.



FoxP2, 2012

~ video, HD 16:9, 2'14''http://vimeo.com/71820328

ed. 5 +1 ap10 000 PLN

~ print, 30 x 21 cm

ed. 5 + 1 ap1 700 PLN

FoxP2 (2012) questions the existence of strong oppositions between categories (such as human – non-human, visible – invisible etc.) by focusing on language as its strongest expression, or even the creative force behind those oppositions. After completing a course in genetic engineering at the Faculty of Biotechnology of the University of Agriculture in Cracow, Górowska isolated a fragment of her own DNA: the FoxP2 gene, commonly known as the gene responsible for communication. Even though the gene is found also in animals, only the human variety can guarantee the ability to communicate through speech. This means that one of the most distinctive features of our species results from a slight mutation in the proteins. The image of the gene is accompanied by Górowska’s video of animal training procedures that the artist re-enacts only by means of harsh and brutal words extracted from their original context. Creating a dissonance, the words are spoken in a gentle manner. The focus is not on the animal, which never appears in the film, but on the human being – language is both the tool and the source of legitimacy of the human pursuit of control.



orang pendek, 2013/2014

~ video, HD 16:9, 7'40''http://vimeo.com/84772105

ed. 5 + 1 ap8 000 PLN

~ print, 42 x 30 cmed. 5 + 1 ap

1000 PLN

~ sculpture, 20 x 10 x 2 cm10 000 PLN

This work revolves around the figure of orang pendek, a legendary hominid – half-man, half- animal – that inhabits the forests of Sumatra, according to eye witness reports. Who or what is orang pendek? Does it really exist? Those questions occupied the minds of Justyna Górowska and Adam Gruba during their exploration of the forest in search of the creature that can potentially be “the missing link of the evolution chain”. Unrecognised by science, the same creature remains merely one of the curiosities of cryptozoology. Yet, what academia considers as unrecognised and unproven – and therefore non-existent – is real enough for the people of Sumatra. For the local communities the hominid is more than a legend, even though, as we are told in the video orang pendek (2013), “it requires a lot of luck to come across the creature.” As we go deeper into the misty jungle of Sumatra, not only our senses become more acute but also our imagination. The borders between the categories of visibility and invisibility, existence and non-existence, the human and the non-human, are gradually blurred. The main question is no longer: “does it exist?”, but „what can allow it to exist?”



Merapi, 2013

~ video, HD 16:9, 5'18''https://vimeo.com/119972358

ed. 5 + 1ap8 000 PLN

Akin to Górowska’s other works from Indonesia, local beliefs and their implied non-essentialist world view underpin the project Merapi (2013). This world view challenges some of the key concepts that define the human condition in Western culture. In a small village on a slope of the active volcano Merapi Górowska was told about a peculiar wedding ceremony when a local girl married the spirit of the volcano, called Petruk. This story inspired her to explore the mysticism and mystical practices of Java. Merapi is a reinterpretation of the ritual. The ceremony appears in a broader context – the work features a person who is not afraid to resign from autonomy in order to become an integral element of reality; a person who rejects the anthropocentric perspective and the claim that humans are the centre of the universe. Another aspect of the project is a confrontation between two seemingly opposing ways of understanding reality: through magic and through science. This aspect is brought to the fore by the artist’s enquiry in a nearby seismograph station, which reveals an increase in the seismic activity of the volcano during the wedding ceremony.



~ Jathilan (Merapi)video, HD 16:9, 6'20''


ed. 5 + 1ap6 000 PLN

~ video with installationinstallation – unique

12 000 PLN



~ Petruk Dadimanten (Merapi)sculpture, 2 x 1,5 x 3 m

30 000 PLN

~ sculpture, 20 x 10 cm6 000 PLN


~ print, 100 x 70 cmed. 5 + 1 ap

4 000 PLN

~ drawing, 21 x 30 cmseries of drawings

1 000 PLN each


Huskperformances

~ 11 polaroids, 2014unique documentation

11 000 PLN (all)

~ photography, 2009documentation

print, 30 x 42 cm

ed. 5 + 1 ap1 500 PLN

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Justyna Górowska portfolio