Lily Markiewicz

Geboren 1961 in München,
lebt seit 1981 in England

Studium der Kunst und Kunstgeschichte in Reading, England und an der Slade School of Art, London. Arbeitet als freie Dozentin u.a. am Birkbeck College, Camberwell College of Art und der University of East London.

Lily Markiewicz is a London-based video and installation artist. Since 1988, her work has been shown and commissioned in Belgium, Canada, Germany, Poland, Spain and the UK. Often dealing with questions of cultural identity and belonging, many of her works are designed with inherent spatial and sensory qualities that implicate the viewer in subtle ways. Using an amalgam of photographic images, video and recorded sound, often digitally manipulated, she evokes a sense of ambiguity or opposing emotional forces. Her images are both unsettling and comforting, allowing contradictory feelings such as pleasure and terror, confinement and release to exist side by side. Describ-ing Markiewicz’ work, Griselda Pollock has commented: »...her art involves a degree of aesthetic condensation - a hypercharged minimalism - and a radical shedding, in order to invest meaning, that comes across to its witness with an almost naked intensity....«

Driven

Videoprojektion, 2003, 9:50 min, Farbe, Stereo, MiniDV, PAL
Ton: adaptiert von »Composition for Piano, Tape and Conversation« von Chantal Laplante

An experimental visual tone poem, a
meditation on memory, travelling and desire.

On a crude level, this seems to be a story about driving away, or maybe towards - the camera never allows a clear identification, yet the ambiguity between ‘away’ and ‘towards’ is central to the experience. If it seems unclear whether the emphasis lies with separating / lacking / longing or with recuperation it soon becomes clear that in this limbo-land of travel to or from, clear resolution is incomplete, both leaving and arrival are still negotiated, recontextualized, sorted, ordered and re-ordered. Larger issues and memories beyond the immediate are mobilised; desires reclaimed or newly imagined form another moment of experience.
We all recognise these moments paradoxically providing both a coming closer into oneself and a distancing from
oneself. This is an experience where
neither time nor space seem fixed, or clearly located.

Swimming to Jerusalem II

Installation, 2003

Silent Video-loop

Like Markiewicz’ previous installa-tion of the same title (No.I), this work continues to explore notions of belonging, home, departure/arrival and the impossibi-lity of fixing any of those to a particular location or action.

Ständige Videoprojektion im Souterrainfenster Bürkle

Richard-Wagner-Weg 43 an der Seite zum Weberweg

Driven im Filmprogramm am 12.9. im Garten Bürkle

und am 19.9. auf dem Platz Flotowstraße/Ecke Löwensternweg