Marta Bełkot Main diploma: Immigrating, Supporting diploma: Diaspora
supervisor:
prof. Mariusz Pałka
Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice
Faculty of Art
Faculty of Art
biography
Date of birth: 19 september 1989
Education:
2010-2016- Academy of Fine Arts, Katowice Poland
2014/2015 Univercidade do Porto, Facultade de Bellas Artes, Portugalia, stypendium Erasmus
2009-2010 - Academy of Fine Arts, Łódź Poland
2005-2009 - Art High school, Katowice
self-commentary
Title: Immigrating.
The project consists of 7 big scale prints showing different characters. These are the heroes whos stories I gathered. Stories about emigration, about travel, about longing, about dislocation. The history of uncertain, shivering, undefined identity.
Title: Diaspora
Meeting Ali marked the beginning of my interest in the subject of migration. I asked him to present the worst emotions associated with sea crossing from Africa towards Europe. He gave me a fast made sketch which is built with circle, repeatitive gesture. As a result I did a 70-hours performative drawing, which reflects the time he spent on a ballon boat while crossing the sea.