Malgorzata Wowczak & Fran Orallo
July 10 - 23, 2022
“Eyeshroom” by Malgorzata Wowczak
Above: still images from “Eyeshroom”
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
Film tells the story of the creature - Eyeshroom. It has only one goal. It want to reproduce and land more and more new areas. It does it in a cruel and uncompromising way. The movie "Eyeshroom" is a horror movie set in a forest. It is also a story about the relationship between human and nature.
Tell us about yourself. How did you come to be an artist in video/digital media?
“I graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. In 2018 I took part in Erasmus exchange during which I studied in Gent. I love making animations, illustrations and drawings.”
“Variations” by Fran Orallo
Above: still images from “Variations”
Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?
The video consists of an experimental abstract animation, divided into a series of sequences of approximately 30 seconds each, made by creative coding software. The animation is made by basic shapes such as ellipses and rectangles that form different patterns on the screen. All of them together form a visual composition minimalistic and poetic. Each composition uses the same color pattern, gray for the background and yellow for the shapes, making them regular and symmetrical. Also, an audio file supports each composition. The movement of the shapes follows the rhythms of the audio.
About the Artist?
Fran Orallo born in Badajoz, Spain in 1979 now lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. His work focuses on experimentation with video and animation. Through the relationship between image and identity, his work explores the different layers that make up the idea of “I”. He understands that identity is nothing more than a role, and his work revolves around this performative identity, using the idea of self-portrait in much of his production. He has exhibited his work both in Spain and abroad, participating in biennials, collective exhibitions, and festivals in more than 40 countries. His work has been screened in public and private institutions such as IVAN (Valencia, Spain), Vostell Malpartida Museum (Cáceres, Spain), MAC- Museum of Contemporary Art of Santiago de Chile (Chile), La Neomudejar (Madrid Spain), Centro del Carmen (Valencia, Spain), Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City, Mexico), Kyrgyz National Fine Arts Museum (Bishkek. Kirghizistan), biennials such as The Wrong Biennale, (Copenhagen, Denmark), VI SIART International Art Biennial (Bolivia), and in fairs and festivals such as arteBA'10 (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Under The Subway Video Art Night (New York), FILE (Brazil), Madatac (Madrid, Spain) or FIVA (Argentina) among others.