Notes from Home

Home objects deprived of their home con­text sud­denly seem quite familiar at the same time and yet unfamiliar, close, but impos­sible to assign to specific memories.

Stiff Milk

Stiff Milk is a break­fast cup in which the milk stood on end, creating a sur­prising, sculp­tural study.

Yawn of a Sleepy Heart

With the instal­lation, Dominika Olszowy imagines the bedroom of Veļu Māte, the Latvian god­dess who rules the world of the dead.

Household Spirit

Olszowy balan­ces on the border between sculp­ture, instal­lation and scenography. Her works allude to domestic space as charac­terized by con­flic­ting emotions: a sense of com­fort and fear, solace and suf­focation, repose and paranoia.

Peep Show

Crooked and twisted cement clothes hung in the gal­lery win­dows as if it was a display of a liquor store.

The Wake

Two-part instal­lation entitled The Wake resem­bles the visualisation of a dream with a motif of a ceremony dedicated to bid­ding farewell to a depar­ted person, and relief and con­solation for those who say good­bye to her loved ones.

Waiting for the Rest

The instal­lation is an attempt to „domesticate” the fear of death and of places dedicated to it. It grew from the existen­tial dread mixed with a desire for a long-​awaited rest.

Performance TV

PTV is a spo­tlight­cast on Warsaw’s art scene. Guests inc­lude more and less known individuals from the local art scene, as well as artists and fic­tional charac­ters caught on camera wor­king and resting.

Death Satisfying

A „satis­fying video” type of footage, created during a sum­mer­time insta-​residence at Raster Gallery.

Ego Trip

Performance in the frame of Better Me exhibition in Zachęta – National Art Gal­lery in Warsaw.

Fear

Dominika Olszowy prepared a video and costumes for the play “Fear” in TR Warszawa.

Good Morning

An animated film in progress, with new footage con­stan­tly added to it. Coffee – a beverage with a strong emotional and visual iden­tity attached to it – is the cen­tral reference.

Winter Landscape

Performance for camera made during Welt­sch­merz residency at Opole Con­tem­porary Art Gallery.

The Fountain of Plenty

The sculp­ture is a fetish object, made in an attempt to disen­chant a poor finan­cial status the „talisman of finan­cial liquidity”, with water gushing from the insides of fake designer bags.