Oskar Chmioła / Works and actions
HYGIENE
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Portfolio description
photography series where snow flakes were introduced under the microscope. Snow flakes were produced from the water which was taken from the Wisła river and he gave the glasses without any labels to the volunteers. Volunteers signed their glasses according to their own ideas and they were doing whatever they wanted witg the water for whole Christmaws time. Then author collected glasses and went to Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAM where he froze water from specific glass producing snow flake and taking a photo of it. In the end he presented photography series as an exhibition where next to the glass he placed the photo of snow flake. Action was inspired by a theory of “water memory” M.Emoto. Author was trying to show importance of hygiene and he decided that the most important of all these is is state of mind. In order to show the spirit he thought that it is possible to show it with something which is clearest and what we do have in our body. To do this he used water, so something what you can not clean. In this way he epistemologically got closer to show the spirit of all participant of the project. Action was done with artistic safekeeping of prof. Miroslaw Balka.
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Higiena (Hygiene)
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