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Dominik Ritszel

Studium postaci

Vidéo | mp4 | couleur | 7:46 | Pologne | 2020

Figure Study is a video collage consisting of found footage and the artist's original recordings. It consists of a video installation, archival material and training videos filmed by the US government during the Cold War, as well as recordings of the Spartakiada, a mass sports competition organised in the Eastern Bloc during the period of Soviet domination. In his work, Dominik Ritszel manipulates the content of these materials by juxtaposing them with his own images, focusing on individual narrative elements as well as formal techniques. The issues raised in the work, ie. public safety, physical hygiene and a healthy lifestyle outline the political meanings attributed to the body, especially the male body. The figurative representations of unified military force and society as a mass aim to reveal the hidden content contained in the archival recordings and reconstruct a vision of patriarchal society.

(b. 1988) active in the area of visual arts. Working with film and video instalations. B.A. Graphics M.A. (2013) graduated at Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, (2020) Doctoral degree in fine arts at Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Winner of the scholarship YOUNG POLAND (2014) and the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2017). Prize winner of the Trieste Contemporanea Award 2015, Listed in Forbes magazine in category of Arts (2016). Lives and works in Katowice, Poland. Co-op with Szara Gallery in Warsaw.