Maciek Stepniewski + MAx Provenzano
August 21 - September 3, 2022
“A Short Film About Solitude” by Maciek Stepniewski
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
“A short film about solitude I made to break my friends hearts.”
About the artist:
Maciek Stepniewski is a Warsaw-based audiovisual artist focusing on digital, abstract and generative design, animation and music. He graduated with both a BA and MA in New Media Arts from the Polish-Japanese Academy of Information. His films have been included in several festivals including but not limited to, Punto Y Raja, Athens Digital Art Festival, AniFilm, Insomnia, Animocje, Patchlab, O!PLA, Animafest, T-Short, and ICONA. His albums were released by local netlabels Trzy Szóstki and Nagrania Somnambuliczne. In 2021 he presented an audiovisual exhibition "The Ocean That Has Been Calling Me".
“La Quema” by MAx Provenzano
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
“Burning processes imply a transformation in the elements involved, a chemical reaction that starts from an initial state to a final state; I am interested in transitions, intermediate points in which territories, environments and bodies are blurred. Burning is a state of transition, a medium migration in which the video and the body form a composite particle with a relative movement, divisible as well into its parts. The body has a movement from one point to another, two points in the geography of the route, mapping an event, the body is a support and also a way of documentation extended through the device. The reaction corresponds to a movement through layers of meaning, shaped by the planes that are exhibited through the screens. Coincidentally, after producing the projection and after viewing it, I find relationships with the colors of the Ukrainian flag, made up of the blue of the sky and the shades of the vegetation, adding signifiers linked to the processes of destruction, transformation and exploitation as a result of invasions of territories. The transit consequently ends with a perception of reality through a moving image.”
About the artist:
“MAx Provenzano (Caracas, 1986); graduated in chemistry in 2011. He studied at the Photography Laboratory of the Faculty of Sciences UCV (2008) and at the Nelson Garrido Organization (2013). His work is an intimate approach to his life, based on the relationship between body, object and environment, by different mediums including audiovisual and performance art. In 2017 he migrated to Mexico with the performative ongoing project (IM)PORTAR, since then, his work has been influenced by the migration context he is actually living in. He has 4 solo shows in Venezuela: [inflexiones] (2014), El Tercer Mundo (2015), |READYMAx| and Elucidaciones (2017). He was selected for Artist In Residence-June 2019 in Agder Kunstsenter, Norway with the project ReLocations and He had the solo show [a]drift in Arteriet Gallery. In 2021, he was one of the curators of Thessaloniki Queer Arts Festival- What is Identity? and displayed the individual project False Polaroids in Largo Cafe Estudio located in Lisbon. His work has also been exhibited in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Greece, Spain and Finland. Currently lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.”