Paweł Wojtasik Videoworks: Volume 1

Paweł Wojtasik

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Collection: Single Artist Compilations

Tags: Animals, Body, Consumer culture, Documentary, Environment, Nature

Paweł Wojtasik Videoworks: Volume 1

Exploring climate change, the destruction of nature, and industrial pollution, these four works by Paweł Wojtasik paint horrific yet meditative landscapes of global infrastructures including meat production, waste treatment, and laboratory experimentation. Often focusing on human and animal interactions in the modern world, Wojtasik's camera studies the subtleties of interspecies connection in a clinical way, lingering on the power and human control of nature.

"For Wojtasik, making art is about facing fear — the fear of death, of pain, of loss, even the fear of seeing certain kinds of imagery on screen — and challenging taboos."

— Scott MacDonald, Perception as Transcendence: Interview with Paweł Wojtasik, Film Quarterly, Vol. 65, 2011

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Paweł Wojtasik

The Aquarium

2006 | 00:22:10

Filmed primarily in Alaska, The Aquarium contrasts the openness of the primeval Arctic landscape with the entrapment of captured sea mammals in aquariums. It speaks of the progressive destruction of…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Animals, Blu-ray, Environment

Paweł Wojtasik

Pigs

2010 | 00:07:48

A close-range look at pigs living on a farm in Las Vegas, Nevada. The pigs, individually and as a group, become a metaphor for humanity as they go from leisurely wallowing in the mud to the wildness…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Animals, Consumer culture

Paweł Wojtasik

Naked

2007 | 00:10:30

Naked shows a colony of naked mole rats living in a laboratory. This rare and highly socialized species demonstrates modes of behavior that in uncanny ways seem human-like. The mole rats are the…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Documentary, Science, Animals

Dark Sun Squeeze is a darkly meditative exploration of a sewage treatment plant, revealing the hidden rhythms and bizarre journey of raw human waste. The images of flowing waste speak of decay,…

Collections: Single Titles
Tags: Consumer culture, Photography