Lily Markiewicz |
Artists Statement
I work in large-scale photo-based installations, which often include elements of video and sound, single screen videos and photography. Most of my works are designed with inherent spatial and sensory qualities that implicate the viewer in subtle ways. My imagery is grounded in the ordinary everyday and domestic, yet resonates with something more unfamiliar and gestures towards something unknown and hidden. I aim to distil abstract concepts such as history, memory and the dialectic of distance and proximity into graspable and emotionally comprehensible experiences. My works are, in a sense, poetic evocations of uncertainty; they hover on the edge of the visible, as visual maps of the uncanny.
Like most of my work, the pieces displayed here form part of a series.
Lily Markiewicz has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the AHRC Centre CATH at the University of Leeds between 2003-07.
She is currently the senior artistic consultant for INCITE-incubator for critical inquiry into technology and ethnography, at Goldsmith College. She is an invited member of Land2, a research network with an interest in place-oriented art practice.
Further web-links
http://www.land2.uwe.ac.uk/lilymark.htm
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cath/ahrc/events/2004/1105/abs/markiewicz.html
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cath/ahrc/events/2006/0111/index.html
Selected Publications include:
The paradox of dualityChapterBecoming Helen Chadwick, Ed. Griselda Pollock, Prestel 2009
Nachtstücke (Night Pieces)Catalogue EssayNight: a time between, Royal West of England Academy, 2008
No place – like homeChapterMigratory Aesthetics, ed Samuel Durrant & Catherine Lord, Rodopi Press 2007
Distant Lands are here - Adam KingEssayLAF Artists Group, exhibition catalogue 2006, and Website (under construction)
Some Thoughts on ‘feeling at home’EssayJournal for Visual Art Practice Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2006
Looking for a new audienceReviewFrauen und Film FuF (Women and Film) 2006
Taking TimeCatalogue EssayAndrea Thoma/Mara Zoltners, Dean Clough & Jack Olson, Illinois
The PoolArtists BookMillennium Box, Gefn Press, London 2000
“You don’t...?"ArticleJewish Quarterly, Summer 1997; The Guardian: 09/07/97
Places To Remember IIArtists PagesACT 2, Writing Art, Pluto Press, 1996/2
"Thank You For E'vry.....ReviewJournal for Performance Research, Routledge 1996/1
UntitledArtists PagesJournal for Performance Research, Routledge 1996/1
The Price of WordsArtists BookBookworks, 1992