Gabriela Rogula



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video projection for Ninepines





Video-projection created for Ninepines.

Performance at Chaos Magic, BACKLIT

03.04.2020.



video projectION Ladder of Glass





”Paper Peace Night”: Poetry, Music and Performance organised by City Arts Nottingham. My video work “Ladder of Glass” was Projected on the ceiling of fabric dome under which the event was held. - 17.11.2018



Wave





Video installation is an illusion of a pond in a room.The pond

is almost like a ghost of the past that haunts us to day.

We are the cause of fast changes in the environment where nature disappears under urban space. My work was part

of the collective exhibition "Trespassing Goddess" at City Arts Nottingham, collaboration led by Harry Martin on 02.12.2018.



Phantasmagoria





Phantasmagoria multi-video installation project has been part

of the Nottingham City Light Night 2013 at the Brewhouse Yard, Museum of Nottingham Life. The Brewhouse Yard Museum

is situated in five remaining 17th-century cottages and used

to house many generations, at one point it was occupied

by a population of 127 people. The project related to the life

of people who lived in this place during Victorian times,

and consisted of 5 back projections, played on a loop in the windows of the Museum. This shadow theatre was filmed

at the Confetti studio, where volunteers recreated possible life situations from the Victorian era. My inspiration for the project was the Museum collection and the unique site where

the Museum is placed. The use of silhouettes in the project come from the shadow theatre which has a long history

in China, India, Java, Turkey, Greece, Syria and North Africa.

I have also been influenced by the work of Krzysztof Wodiczko, Jenny Holzer and Rafael Lozano- Hemmer. The title relates

to Phantasmagoria shows - work of physicist and stage magician Etienne Gaspard Robertson. I’m very happy that I was given

an opportunity to be involved in the Phantasmagoria project.

It was a pleasure to work with so many dedicated people. Complete organisers, support, cast and crew credits available

at the end of this video and directly under the YouTube video publication.



QUANTUM





Video installation alludes to the “Book of Genesis“

depicting day and night, water, air, and the earth.

In my work I try to bring attention to the wave and vibration which is the base for everything that exists in the universe.

Video and music installation, part of group exhibition.

Surface Gallery Nottingham on 30.11.-14.12.2018.



Me Me Me





My work reflects on contemporary anthropocentrism

and I'm trying to magnify and create sympathy towards

small insect that is treated like a pest and killed by gardeners.

Insects are commonly treated as a nuisance which leads

to ecological disaster. Video taken during Group Exhibition “Reflection” Surface Gallery Nottingham 12-20.04.2018.

Insect was found in salad, it was put outside in the grass later.

Music is also by me.




River Soar





Video composition made by me and music by Harry Martin.

May 2020



Indigo





Video composition made by me and music by Harry Martin.

The Process of making this video involved slow motion capture of ink droplets dissolving in water, they resemble clouds forming micro storms in the jar.

May 2020



Ladder of Glass





Video composition made by me and music by Harry Martin.

The video documents a plane ascending from the position

of the passenger, - the view from the window is beautiful

and daunting at the same time.

May 2020



Wandering Mind





Animated projection on mannequin

June 2023



Buzzy Bones





Experimental project,- video work and music

October 2018



Biospaceship





BIOSPACESHIP integrating biological and celestial forms into a psychedelic video and sound composition. There are two fluid, transforming elements “feminine” and “masculine” merging into a Rorschach’s like animated “Inkblot”. The Video composition is made of filmed puppetry of colourful modelling clay submerged in water and then extensively processed in various editing software. The sound was composed by using synthesiser software. The Biospaceship project is a body of many associations. It consolidates concepts related to the changing culture, development of technology and the impact of modern discoveries on the biological world. The project formally refers to the first computer graphics from the 1950s - works by Ben F. Laposky the Oscillons series and works by Herbert W. Franke. It also has many references to the 1960s, the times of utopian vision of an ideal future. The project alludes to the psychedelic imaginations of flower children born just after the Second World War. During the Cold War, the fear of a nuclear attack was still in the air, and tendency for escaping in to ideas of a colourful future were present. The emancipation of women and the sexual revolution changed the culture and socioeconomic situation in most places in the world. The gender concept begins to undergo a metamorphosis. The Biospaceship integrates the female and male elements where they merge into one. A Biospaceship is a peculiar biological spacecraft. It illustrates the rush towards space travel and at the same time is supposed to evoke a glowing colourful creatures in the depths of the ocean that is so largely unexplored. This unidentified biological form divides into parts like cells under a microscope. The micro and macro cosmos becomes one and the artificial meets the biological. Video and music finished on August 2018.



Heat





Summer macro videography and music project

October 2020



Mummy and Daddy





My work is a reaction to how the media portrays gender.

Women are often depicted with suggestive open mouths

and phallic like objects inside their mouths such as fingers, chocolate bars, lollipops, ice creams etc.,- they look like their main occupation is to give sexual pleasure to men. Men are associated with violence even toys for boys are often replicas

of guns. Often violence and dominance are depicted as traits

of masculinity. University of Derby, June 2011



Fish and Head





University of Derby 2010

Video installation exercise



Beneath the Surface





University of Derby, 2009

Video installation



Fine art



Migrant Workers



Messenger



Peripheral matters



Very tired aliens





Tired aliens



Tired Aliens is a series of works created between 2013 and 2017,

and a reaction to how the media portrayed immigration. I'm a migrant myself,

I arrived to UK from Poland in 2006, while in general I'm surrounded by lovely people,

and I'm happy here,I’ve also experienced hostility from time to time on the base of my nationality, and I have witnessed it towards migrants from different countries too. I worked as an advisor

at a homeless charity for about 8 years, supporting numbers of struggling migrants from different countries. Xenophobia exists in every country, but at the time while working on " Tired Aliens"

the UK was portraying itself as a very tolerant and friendly place towards migrants compared to "other countries". What was most shocking is that prominent politicians and so called "respectful" broadcasting TV, radio and press were a large contributor in the way migrants were portrayed, causing anti-immigrant sentiment and fear. The Press have been spinning islamophobic articles since 9/11. The situation started getting even worse for most of the immigrants after Teresa May become Home Secretary in 2012, her policies and general culture in parliament became relaxed towards xenophobia. David Cameron felt comfortable enough to make dehumanising comments calling migrants a "swarm" in 2015. Since then the situation systematically got worse. Just a year after making the last piece of this series the Windrush scandal happened causing enormous harm to the Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean who had lived in the UK their whole lives.

We are living to day in Post- Brexit Britain and yet again there is no end of hostility from the current government and press that follows. Each of my works is an installation made of different materials: "Migrant workers" are made by use of watercolour and pencil on a wall and a spotlight. Other works are sculptured objects made of the plaster cast and some including materials like polyurethane foam, canvas and acrylic paint.