Tropical Islands
Ella Sowinska
30
March 2017
30
March
2017
14
April 2017
Night Screen
Ella Sowinska’s work is concerned with the private and intimate lives of others, and the obsession and fascination with the documentation of them. She is guided by the theoretical discourses of reality television and documentary practices. Ella addresses the impact that the constructed situation has upon these social relationships, and explores the power dynamics between director or artist and actor, participant or contestant by drawing attention to the often-constructed situation. Working predominantly in video, installation and occasionally, live performance, Ella’s work is critical of the documentation of the intimate lives of others, and of the subsequent voyeurism. Tropical Islands is set inside of a fake tropical island located in an old airship hangar approximately 60 kilometers south of Berlin. This series explores the island as an artificial set for romance.
Ella Sowinska’s work is concerned with the private and intimate lives of others, and the obsession and fascination with the documentation of them. She is guided by the theoretical discourses of reality television and documentary practices. Ella addresses the impact that the constructed situation has upon these social relationships, and explores the power dynamics between director or artist and actor, participant or contestant by drawing attention to the often-constructed situation. Working predominantly in video, installation and occasionally, live performance, Ella’s work is critical of the documentation of the intimate lives of others, and of the subsequent voyeurism. Tropical Islands is set inside of a fake tropical island located in an old airship hangar approximately 60 kilometers south of Berlin. This series explores the island as an artificial set for romance.
Ella Sowinska
Ella Sowinska is an artist and filmmaker whose work is guided by the theoretical discourses of documentary and reality television. Ella addresses the impact that the constructed situation has upon these social relationships, and explores the power dynamics between director or artist and actor, participant or contestant by drawing attention to the often-constructed situation. Working predominantly in video, installation and occasionally, live performance, Ella's work is critical of the voyeurism inherent in the documentation of the private and intimate lives of others. Recent projects have been concerned with the representation of intimacy and desire in non-fiction screen based works from a queer perspective. Ella's work has been included in the Mildura Palimpsest Biennial, as well as recent exhibitions at TCB, The Honeymoon Suite, Metro Arts and The Centre for Contemporary Photography. Ella’s film ‘80 Ways’ was exhibited on the online platform ‘Recess’ in 2018, and received a positive review by MEMO in their recent ‘Best and overlooked of 2018’ segment. Ella's graduating film Pretty Gross and Incredibly Intimate won the Best Documentary award at the VCA graduate awards in 2018.