Holiday Souvenir
Video installation 2006/2009
USTKA, Poland – my holidays, my childhood, buried in a dune, in a smoked fish,
in freshbread-rolls, sounds of a storm, cold water and hot sun. Between 1950 and 1963
I wouldregularly spent two summer holiday months there. I remember with great
intensity the moment when a night train would depart Poznan for Slupsk, and then
the forests of Mokrzyca which it would dash through – to Ustka. Time would change
there and for two months everything would become mysterious and different. For
that reason I decided to show there “The Art of Easy Choice” from 2006 expanded with
The Baltic episode……
This work has got the most references and quotations from my private life,
my travels,exhibitions, dances, eating together, presence of friends and their children,
old and young people, dogs and cats, gardens, meaningful and trivial episodes taken
out of my life.
In this place, time loops itself, and additionally grows bigger with long forgotten
flavours, smells, feelings and emotions.
This is my little Holiday Souvenir – received, or maybe given after many years.
Izabella Gustowska 2009
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Bałtycka Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej - Ustka / 24.07- 20.09.2009/