I’m delighted to be participating in a new show curated by the wonderful Alexander Boynes at Canberra Contemporary, titled Carbon Neutral. https://www.ccas.com.au/present Showing from 19 February - 10 April 2022
Artist Statement: Marzena Wasikowska
The photographic images in this exhibition are from the Alaska Series, one of several series that comprise an overarching body of work, titled Earth’s Self Correcting Systems, which considers human induced climate change and is an aesthetic visual response to our environmental predicament.
The work advances a contemporary notion of the sublime and references its extensive vocabulary to visualize impacts of climate change on glaciers and coastal environments. It proposes that the most relevant sublime is an ecological one – we stand before catastrophic natural events wondering what on Earth we have unleashed.
The Alaska Series focuses on calving glacial seascapes as subjects of planetary change in need of our attention and consideration. Despite presenting as localised events, melting glaciers affect changes in every part of the globe and are a significant contributor to rising sea levels, a decline in the planet’s ability to reflect solar radiation back into space. Inflow of fresh water from melt into sea water, changing the pattern of ocean currents, is considered in Remains of the Glacier.
photograph documentation for CCAS by Brenton McGeachie
photograph documentation for CCAS by Brenton McGeachie
photograph documentation for CCAS by Brenton McGeachie
Starting in November 2021 at PhotoAccess, I will lead a group of participants in a nine-month program to develop a concept into a body of work that will culminate in an exhibition.
https://www.photoaccess.org.au/learn/classes/concept-to-exhibition/
Delighted and Honoured to be featured in Lens Cultures’s Critic’s Choice 2021, selected by Joanna Milter - Director of Photography, The New Yorker
https://www.lensculture.com/2021-lensculture-critics-choice-award-winners
https://www.lensculture.com/marzena-wasikowska
Delighted to share with you my image in @portraitau Living Memory exhibition will launch this Friday, 30 July 2021, open to the public from Saturday.
If you like it enough you might vote for it in the People’s Choice category via the link in ABOUT : https://www.portrait.gov.au/npppphoto/97836/
In addition, the 79 extraordinary finalists’ work can be viewed on the NPG’s website.
#PortraitAU
#LivingMemoryNPPP
photograph documentation for National Portrait Gallery by Mark Mohell
2017 Macquarie Telecom Award ♥️ Much gratitude CAPO ♥️ Aurora Borealis here I come.
Earth’s Self-Correcting Systems is a work which considers human induced climate change. Itreferences the vocabulary of the sublime, a concept in fine art that refers to the human awe of nature – its fearsome beauty. This work is a meditation on the built environment, in particular it visualising impacts on coastal settlements. It proposes that the most relevant contemporary sublime is the ecological sublime.
