Gosia Wlodarczak, a Melbourne-based Polish artist, is set to captivate with her immersive frost drawing performance at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
Over the course of 21 days, Wlodarczak is using the glass window façade of the centre as her canvas, creating a real-time artwork that blurs the boundaries of architecture and public life through drawing.
The second phase of Wlodarczak’s performance will take place from Monday, July 10, until Friday, July 21, offering the public the opportunity to witness her artistic process. The live performance is free and can be enjoyed alongside the centre’s diverse programming throughout July.
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Divided into two stages across June and July, the interactive and transdisciplinary performance invites visitors to witness Wlodarczak’s live drawing on the centre’s glass facade. With her signature linework style, she records her observations and experiences, transforming the honeycomb-shaped windows into a visual representation of her unique perspective.
Wlodarczak’s artistic journey during her residency at the Melbourne Recital Centre is reflected in the resulting artwork. It serves as a visual record of the connection between her physical senses and the surrounding environment, offering a glimpse into her perception of time and place.
“Drawing is the basis of my whole practice, extending towards performance, interactive situations, installations, sound and film; I refer to it as cross-disciplinary drawing. I draw my environment as I see it, in real time – tracing and retracing the visible,” Wlodarczak says.
The culmination of Wlodarczak’s 21-day performance will be an audio-visual finale. A fragment of the drawing will be transformed into a musical score, which will be performed live and projected onto the internal architecture of the centre.
“Everything from the outside world is channeled into mark making,” she continues. “People often ask me, why frost drawing? What does it mean? I work in public spaces where life goes on. That’s what I do when I draw, I look, and when I look, I draw.”
You can catch the final artwork, which will will remain installed long-term from Saturday July 29 to Sunday July 30.
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