Stated State

Ksenia Makała

Being a modern-day nomad applies to more and more people – whether those changing jobs, renting apartments, seasonal workers or travelers.

The experience of relocating from place to place, saying goodbye, and confronting the new is an object of my frequent observation.

Changing location involves the need to tame a place and requires an attempt at rediscovery and identification of new points.

It is increasingly rare that we are owners of a place, and rarely we inhabit one place for life. The network of temporarily inhabited places raises the question of how this instability defines the identity of contemporary nomads and how they develop a sense of belonging to a place.

The thesis project involves a sequence of digital video images, constructing a spatio-temporal narrative. By engaging with the viewer, I invite them to explore the story from different orders and perspectives to build their own cognitive map.

Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice and the Faculty of Architecture at the Silesian University of Technology. She realizes projects in the field of artistic installation and scenography. She is interested in space and relations within it, as well as the impact of urban agglomerations on the individual and their well-being.

Her installation ASYLUM was awarded at the international review – Prague Quadrennial 2023.
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Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Katowice
Chair of Intermedia and Scenography
Interdisciplinary Creations Studio
Prof. Paweł Mendrek