Dominika Godlewska White people
supervisor:
dr Wojciech Sobczyk
Pedagogical University of Krakow
Faculty of Art – Graphics
Faculty of Art – Graphics
biography
Dominika Godlewska
born: 1.01.1992
EDUCATION:
History
Master’s degree, Jagiellonian University in Kraków
2014 - now
Graphic Arts
Bachelor’s degree, Pedagogical University in Kraków
2013 - 2016
Erasmus scholarship, Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey
Septemer 2015 - February 2016
History
Bachelor’s degree, Jagiellonian University in Kraków
2011 - 2014
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
White People, Galeria Wydziałowa Kraków, December 2015 - January 2017
Rozciągnięci, Art festival Wschod Kultury/Inny Wymiar in Białystok, July - September 2015
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Best diplomas 2016, Telpod Kraków, January 2017
Printing of the year 2016, Messier 42 Gallery Krakow, June 2016
Haydi Haydi, Tasarim Atolyesi Kadikoy, Istanbul, January 2016
Conflict, Otwarnia Pracownia Gallery in Kraków, June 2015
COMPETITIONS:
Ist Prize, Bus stop/Sketchbook, art in the urban space, Kraków, March 2016
Honourable mention, Culture All in UJ, art of the student’s of Jagiellonian University, April 2016
Official selection, poster promoting security in workplace, August 2015
My diploma artwork is an artistic interpretation of the short horror story „White People” by Arhur Machen. The story contains of two parts: a discussion between two friends and a diary of a young girl. I decided to create a book that would be a visual interpretatation of the story's composition. I made an attempt to „materialize” the tale, „translate” it from the literary language to the language of art. I illustrated the whole story with 23 lithographies, created with different techniques, characteristic for this type of printing (mokulito, asphalt, transfer, monotype, traditional lithography). They are characteristically and consequently restricted in colours, only black and white. According to this minimalistic colour palette, I tried to portray the disturbing atmosphere of the story. Its mistery is in understatement. The shades of gray I used harmonize with the incertitude and difficulty of assessments, definition of the essential issue the main characters disscuss: what is a sin?
