“Anna Molska’s Pole, płaski teren [Open field, flat terrain] exhibition is not just a collection of video and audio art; what we are dealing with here is an exceptional, ambiguous charade, a visual and at the same time sensual puzzle.
One way to interpret this exhibition is to regard it as a film experiment (a reading that is further encouraged by the forty-year-old editing table positioned at the entrance to the exhibition). However, this interpretation requires a prior awareness of the basic film editing tactics: the juxtaposition of contrasting images that have an analogous thematic meaning (known in filmmaking as associative editing), the assembling of a succession of images to present an escalating journey of experience (montage of attractions), or continuity editing that preserves the illusion of undisrupted time and space across editorial transitions. We should also keep in mind that for filmmakers the objective of creative editing is to exercise a specific, definite effect on the attention and emotions of the audience, to play with the understanding of what we are seeing. According to Molska herself, this exhibition is a distinct narrative about the land which we are part of. She spins a meandering tale, which serves as a reflection of what pains us, what rubs us the wrong way and what seems to lurk under the facade of our national identity”. (Lidia Krawczyk, curator of the exhibition)
Anna Molska (born in 1983) is a visual artist. She is a graduate the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where she studied audiovisual art under the tutelage of Professor Grzegorz Kowalski.
