Jadwiga B.Podowska |
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The purpose of the title, The Science of Confusion is to suggest that the room contains items and visual means, we can easily associate with science, while putting in doubt the science as truth provider. The room reflects an individual's attempt to understand, to make sense of the material world and the non-tangible inner world of thought, we humans are exposed to. |
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From left: Gicclé prints. Two high glass-vitrines exhibit the natural materials like seeds, plants, insects and other objects. To the right, there are portraits of flies framed in family-like frames. You can see portraits here. The monitor displays a video in 7 chapters. On this photography video chapter “The depth of death” is shown. |
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Collection of insects. Still Life staged on bread for purpose of macro photography. Some macro photo can you see here |
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Collection of Seeds. | ||||||
Exotic seeds and seed remains with Latin names, under: an algae in symbiosis with a stone. |
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The Tree Which Never Grew. The Pure Form of Pain. | ||||||
Dangerous Games. Punctum. Future was there. Now, only everlasting past. | ||||||
These vitrines are specially made for the exhibition. Each vitrine has a shelf under the glass and interior LED lighting. They contain a collection of objects, photographs and text. Photographs over vitrines can you see here. | ||||||
Vitrine 1: This collection is a wonder of one of nature's "hidden codes" that visually manifest as bifurcation. Bifurcation is the term for a division into two, eg. branches and roots of trees and plants, rivers, veins, trachea etc. In this vitrine, from the left: satellite picture of the Himalayas, a young rhubarb leaf that has a texture of "mountains" and "valleys", bacterial colony, macro photography of China Ink, photography of deformed mountain-trees, China Ink drawing, X-ray of neck veins, dried roots of grass, a simplified model of the bifurcation, lichen, insect wing and a river Congo in Africa in a petri dish. How China Ink forms bifurcated forms are recorded in macro-video and in the video titled: The Secret of China Ink » shown on the exhibition. You can see it here. Here is video which shows branches of bacterial colony. |
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The collection includes: A copy picture of Peter Campers drawing "Facial Angle" from 1770, (an innocent drawing from a lecture to art students about the beauty and portrait). Later, the picture has been used in connection with eugenics, beauty ideal and Nazi racism (Aryan race). |
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"Heredity of perishing" - is the title of this vitrine. This is dedicated to a family semi-research. I have observed that my father in law, my husband and my son has the same type of eyes. By replacing father in law eyes with my son’s eyes, I could go back in time and infer how my father in law eyes looked like for 65 years ago, when he was 14. The poster I do not show on the web I call "Predicting the Past." |
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One of the light boxes. Behind the glass-plate lies thin dry Begonia Rex Escargot leaves. The public can study internal structures of begonia through the magnifying glass. |
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On the other lightbox lies in Petri dishes various satellite images of cities and dried bacterial colonies. | ||||||