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Anna Zaradny

Enjoy the Silence

2018, wideo, 13'08"

Anna Zaradny's work Enjoy the Silence is the result of reflections on the essence of sound and constitutes an attempt to capture its negative – silence. The film consists of hyperrealistic sequences in which we observe the shattering of glass in slow motion. Flickering shards swirl in clouds of glass dust against a neutral black background, creating a pulsating composition reminiscent of avant-garde works, such as Eggeling's Diagonal Symphony or structural cinema.

The video is devoid of sound. While admiring the aesthetic and meditative dimension of the explosions of glass surfaces, there arises a confrontation with the suggestive imagination of sound. The sensual impact of the work transcends the visual and activates areas of memory. We experience memories that disrupt our sense of comfort – the crash of shattering glass objects, the danger of contact with shards. The absence of sound evokes associations with marine depths or the space above the earthly atmosphere. Anna Zaradny's work also evokes images of sunlight reflections far beneath the water's surface and visions of cosmic nebulae and asteroids traversing the sky, suggesting that the enjoyment of silence extends beyond our everyday, mundane experiences.

Anna Zaradny

b. 1977, Szczecin

Sound and visual artist, composer, instrumentalist, co-founder of the Musica Genera festival and label. She is the author of music for theatrical and performative realizations. A graduate of the Academy of Music (saxophone, conducting). She utilizes her background in improvised and experimental music, treating instruments as an open, organic form. As a composer and instrumentalist, Zaradny moves within a wide spectrum, from acoustic, minimalist improvised music to complex, structurally and compositionally entirely electronic forms. Her works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad (including the Avant-Garde Institute / Foksal Gallery Foundation, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Bunkier Sztuki, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, SILLBERKUPPE, Kunst Werke Berlin). She is a laureate of several awards, including the Maria Anto & Else von Freytag-Loringhoven Arts Award (2023), the SHAPE platform (2017), and the audience award at the 5th edition of the "Spojrzenia - Deutsche Bank Foundation Award" competition (2011). She was a scholar at Museums Quartier Vienna (2005). She lives and works in Warsaw.

b. 1977, Szczecin

Sound and visual artist, composer, instrumentalist, co-founder of the Musica Genera festival and label. She is the author of music for theatrical and performative realizations. A graduate of the Academy of Music (saxophone, conducting). She utilizes her background in improvised and experimental music, treating instruments as an open, organic form. As a composer and instrumentalist, Zaradny moves within a wide spectrum, from acoustic, minimalist improvised music to complex, structurally and compositionally entirely electronic forms. Her works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad (including the Avant-Garde Institute / Foksal Gallery Foundation, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Bunkier Sztuki, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, SILLBERKUPPE, Kunst Werke Berlin). She is a laureate of several awards, including the Maria Anto & Else von Freytag-Loringhoven Arts Award (2023), the SHAPE platform (2017), and the audience award at the 5th edition of the "Spojrzenia - Deutsche Bank Foundation Award" competition (2011). She was a scholar at Museums Quartier Vienna (2005). She lives and works in Warsaw.

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