Marta Bełkot Main diploma: Immigrating, Supporting diploma: Diaspora

supervisor: prof. Mariusz Pałka
Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice
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.