Edition 6

 

The educational and artistic project was born in the mind of Marta Mariańska, a teacher of the basics of photography and film. Through outdoor sessions, workshops, meetings with artists and Borderland residents, young people will create a shared artistic commentary of the youngest art, referring to the current and most important issues of the surrounding reality.

In the spring of 2024, shortly after submitting a grant application in the Competition, Marta Mariańska met Aleksandra Chaberek, a painter working in the modern art trend, who has been leading nature workshops for 20 years. The lead teacher invited the artist to collaborate and organized a workshop for young people titled 'East.'

 

 

 

Workshop with Alensandra Chaberek

 

 

 

The project began in eastern Poland, in Supraśl and the Borderlands. From October 22 to 25, 2024, the following took place:

• a lecture by prof. Agata Michowska "How many photos are needed to describe the world?"
• tours of the Borderlands and meetings with residents promoting the border areas, with Lucyna Jurkiewicz, Grażyna Puchalska, Marta Kurzyniec, Leszek Skrodzki, Maciej Sidorowicz, Sławomir Jakimiuk from the Parish of St. John the Theologian in Mostowlany.

 

 

It was a very valuable meeting for the youth in the context of the project - says Marta Mariańska.

 

 

 

Intermedia outdoor event on the border with Belarus

 

 

 

Intermedia outdoor event on the border with Belarus

 

 

 

Intermedia outdoor event on the border with Belarus

 

 

 

 Intermedia outdoor event on the border with Belarus

 

 

 

Youth meeting with Sławomir Jakimiuk from the Parish of St. John the Theologian in Mostowlany

 

 

 

 

 An intermedia plein air near the border with Belarus. In the background, the mosque in Kruszyniany. A wooden mosque located in the village of Kruszyniany, in the Podlaskie Voivodeship. It is the oldest preserved Tatar mosque in Poland, built on a rectangular plan measuring 10x13 m, recognized as Podlasie wooden architectural heritage.

 

 

  

 

The youth prepared a recording of audiovisual material and participated in workshop activities in the field of content analysis, audio-video editing, photo processing, object design, and preparing spatial installations for the exhibition in Szczecin until the end of 2024.

 

 

 

 

 

Workshop activities in the field of content analysis, audio-video editing, photo processing, object design.

 

 

 

PLSP in Supraśl, in connection with the implementation of the project, has established cooperation with the Academy of Art in Szczecin. Students get to know the workshop of new media, the culture of Supraśl and Szczecin. The first online meeting of students from the Academy of Art in Szczecin with the project team from PLSP in Supraśl took place.

The youth address social issues important to them: identity, west, east, divisions, war, refugees, border. Ultimately, through the language of digital media, they will collaboratively create an intermedia installation, presented in Szczecin during an opening shown live on the Internet.

From March 16 to 20, 2025, a plein air event 'Sunsets' is planned in Szczecin. And on March 19, 2025, a ceremonial opening and project closure will take place at the Obrońców Stalingradu 17 Gallery in Szczecin.

At the turn of May and June 2025, the project team plans to present a post-plein air exhibition at PLSP in Supraśl.

 

 

The project team consists of 5 third-grade students: Wiktoria Lewczuk, specialization: Artistic printing techniques, Natalia Sorko, specialization: Sculptural techniques, Gabriela Szatkowska, specialization: Artistic fabric, Eliza Wawrusiewicz, specialization: Artistic fabric, Julia Żementowska, specialization: Artistic printing techniques.

 

 

"How many photos are needed to describe the world?"

This is the title of a lecture by dr hab. Agata Michowska-Łazarczyk from the Academy of Art in Szczecin, which brought tremendous educational value to the "Sunrises-Sunsets" project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On March 19, 2025, the final of the project conducted under the supervision of Marta Mariańska, a teacher of intermedial practice at PLSP in Supraśl, dr hab. Agata Michowska-Łazarczyk, professor at the Academy of Arts in Szczecin, at the Faculty of Media Art, Photography and Experimental Film within the structure of the Video Film and Transmedia Narratives Studio in the Department of Media Arts and Animation, and dr hab. Anna Orlikowska, professor at the Academy of Arts in Szczecin, Dean of the Faculty of Media Art, Photography and Experimental Film, took place in the hall of the “Selsin” Cooperative in Szczecin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The finale of the project in Szczecin

 

 

Through the language of digital media, an intermedial installation was created collectively, referring to important content: identity, the East, the West, refugees, the border – serving as an example of socially engaged art.

 

 

 

 

From the left in the foreground: dr hab. Agata Michowska-Łazarczyk and Marta Mariańska

 

 

 

The project was carried out by students of the 3rd grade of PLSP in Supraśl and students of the Academy of Art in Szczecin. At this point, we emphasize that in the history of over 50 concepts realized within the Grants Program Competitions "Wena", the project is the first in which direct cooperation between high school students and university students took place. The youth mutually benefited from each other, sharing knowledge, inspirations, perceptions of the world, and the daily experience of living under direct threat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The artistic activities carried out in the project outside of school and academic studios have built a mature commentary on the eastern border, in the form of: a documentary film, photography, animation, performance, and an art installation.

During the vernissage, the project participants pointed out in their statements the great value of collaboration, saying: How much one can mature in the course of 6 months of carrying out such a project!

 

 

 

 

Performance of Kacper Janowski, an artist, student at AS in Szczecin, participant of the project.

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations! We are convinced that the images from the East and the West will remain with young creators and audiences for a very long time, as a living and true map of the place and a map of relationships.

 

 

COMPLIANCE WITH THE COMPETITION THEME: "One-to-One Scale Map"

Map of relationships

 

 

 

 

TEACHER

Marta Mariańska, certified teacher, has been running the basic photography and film workshop for 13 years, graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. Dominant fields in her workshop: video, photography, sound.