Blue Movie
- Blue Movie, 2007
- Blue Movie, 2007
Agnieszka Brzezanska
Poland 2007
video, colour, sound, 4 min, loop
In her new project, Agnieszka Brzezanska herself represents the notorious gaze behind the camera taking pictures of her "models". For Blue Movie she invited other women artists in her circle to perform as nudes in an empty dark
space to a track by Blondie. The resulting film is an improvised free dance of shadows of female bodies. The nudes are captured in casual, graceful or discreetly suggestive poses. One senses a touch of '70s psychedelia and pop
aesthetic. At the same time, they are reminsicent of a more austere context – the abstract studies of Matisse or the late esoteric nudes of Yves Klein. Agnieszka Brzezanska's images are on the verge of these cultural memory backups, her paintings being "afterimages".
Agnieszka Brzezanska enacts an uncanny transformation. The classic roles of "artist" and "model" are morphed into a complicit interaction between Brzezanska's camera and the performing models. Although more or less prominent in the art world, the artist-model's presence stays anonymous. The monumental dark silhouettes, enigmatic in their aesthetic character, present a self-assured and conscious presence of their subjects.
