Ada Zielinska (b. 1989), "PANDA 1" from the "Love, Panda" series, 2021

Exhibited
"Ada Zielinska. Frutti di mare" at the Contemporary Museum in Wroclaw 09.12.2021 - 04.04.2022

Biography
Visual artist whose work focuses mainly on photography, video and installations. Her main interests oscillate around the idea of destruction, treated as a necessary condition for rebirth, and the artistic practice itself is a special form of self-therapy for her. Her artistic work is dominated by catastrophic events, which are both realistically experienced and staged, not only to document, but also to explore the aesthetics and emotions they evoke. Drawing on post-photography, she seeks to extend this approach to the public, creating a photogenic environment that encourages viewers to explore the aesthetics and emotions evoked by her works.

The motif of the car and motoring repeatedly appears in her work, changing in both context and form. It can act as an invisible companion, as in the "Post Tourism" series of photographs documenting the sites of forest fires in Australia and California. The car can also become a desirable object, subjected to various abuses, such as arson or meltdown, in order to test its endurance and create ideal disaster photographs. This is exemplified by the multidisciplinary installation "Panda" and photography from the album "Pyromaniac's Manual."

At some point, the car also becomes a material for transformation - it can be taken apart, transformed into something completely new, like the miniature vehicle in the "Blind Spot" series. On the other hand, in the project "A la carte," created during a residency at the Chateau de la Haute Borde and exhibited at the Galerie du 13 in Paris, the car becomes part of a luxury dinner party, in which dishes prepared from car parts are served to guests, a critical commentary on the consumption patterns of the upper classes. More recently, the artist has focused on audiovisuality, exploring the potential of short video forms as a means to a more poetic style of storytelling.