MediaNoche - Exhibit Czech Republic

CZECH REPUBLIC 1998 - 2008, perspectives from an immigrant child
an interactive, site-specific installation by BIBIANA
September 17 - November 6, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 17, 6PM - 8PM
Artist Talk: Thursday, October 8, 6PM
Live Film Remix: Saturday, October 24, 7PM

The immigrant's world is deconstructed and recontextualized in this multimedia, multi-platform exhibition that thrusts the unsuspecting visitor into an intimately claustrophobic tenement apartment. Photographs hang on walls, clothes lines and in digital frames. An old hand-operated slide projector and television set provide their own referential images. Projected movie fragments also crowd the walls, while studio-recorded and found sounds fill the space, luring visitors to different "rooms," where furniture, personal articles and sundry items provide an eerily lonely feeling.

According to Bibiana: "The space (generated from flooring materials, artificial ceilings, furniture) provides the setting for the internal world of the person inhabiting it--which in turn takes the visitor to more abstract places, particularly memory, time, love, relationships, self."

ARTIST BIO
BIBIANA is a multidisciplinary artist. A photographer at core, she utilizes installations, film, books, sound, drawings, printmaking, and sculpture to achieve a raw, personal documentary style. Dear Lu is a feature film she shot and directed. SILENCE, an "art happening", is a music and performance event bridging the gap between contemporary classical, avant-garde, and electronic music. She is a recipient of various scholarships and grants, and has exhibited in New York City and Montreal. She is a graduate of Pratt Institute.

ARTIST STATEMENT
I am constantly trying to invent new ways of presenting work, whether it is experimenting with media, size, combining techniques, or creating time shifts and juxtaposing image & sound. Space is very important to me. I consider theatrical and dance stages while trying to create an unquestionably 'real' space that allows the release of moments or fragments of images and emotions.