Anna Tarnowska Potential Energy

supervisor: Professor Grzegorz Banaszkiewicz
Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa
Faculty of Arts

biography

born 1995.

Diploma in the lithography studio at the Faculty of Art of the UJD in Częstochowa.

Works with many techniques; She combines and connects them with visual preferences. She mostly uses the following media: graphic, drawing, and photography. She is also interested in physical phenomena.

In the graphic arts workshop, she focuses on dry techniques of intaglio and litography.

 

Participant in 20 collective exhibitions, including 13 international (between 2017 and 2020).

 

Winner of the Young Graphics Award in the GRAFITEKA 2019 competition of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers in Warsaw Scholarship of the President of Częstochowa in 2019.

 

self-commentary

If the object is not influenced by external forces, there is a reaction or effect neither in nature nor in life.  Our life is a constant transfer of energy between people, a set of reactions. The development of an individual occurs through his intercourse with other people.

"Potential Energy" is my graphical variation about interpersonal relationships, interactions between bodies, the dynamics of our lives. It is an attempt to penetrate into the human body and deprive it of rigid corporeality. The graphics inspiration for me was a luminescent phenomenon, Kirlian photography, the image of the infrared camera. Starting from painting on the human body - through photography - I created the final form of a series of presented algraphy technique graphics.

In this cycle, I was trying to visualize the mechanism of reaction and image of the material and immaterial human form.

The diploma set contains graphics in big and miniature form and animation based on photography.