No. 46
"3 Small Videos: Love Story, No Title (Blue), The Crisis"
Artist: Poljak, Renata
Title: 3 Small Videos: Love Story, No Title (Blue), The Crisis
Genre: Experimental video
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MORE1. Love Story, 2010 [00:04:30]
One can see the profile of a man and a woman, gazing at each other under fireworks.The scene is in slow motion, with romantic atmosphere and music that evokes a sense of love. The video uses film language cliches to describe a love story via fireworks. After a while the idyllic images fade away and the scene opens again, with the same actors and fireworks. It?s the identical scene but now in reverse. The fireworks implode,?falling? faster and faster on the couples heads. The rhythm and the music speed up, evoking a "fight" between the couple.
2. No Title, video from project No Title (Bleu), 2010 [00:04:00]
3. The Crisis, [00:12:00]
The video is about the possibility and impossibility of decision-making. In times of crises, one believes more in faith, in superstitious signs. He loves me, he loves me not. I will get a job, I won't get the job... One turns to the coffee cup to read their future or flower petals to make a decision. The soundtrack ? music , made by Annika Grill, voice by Renata Poljak alternates voices, sounds, song and flutes, creating a catchy hypnotic melody.
3 Small Videos: Love Story, No Title (Blue), The Crisis
Born in 1974, in Split, Croatia, Renata Poljak grew up and graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Split and later spent a year in post-graduation (international post diplome) at the Ecole R?gionale des Beaux-Arts in Nantes, France. Her body of work is composed of different medias: videos, film, installations, drawings and photos. In 2002 she was visiting artist in San Francisco Art Institute and in 2008 she has been selected for Art In General residency program in New York.
