Wiola Ujazdowska

Wiola Ujazdowska is an artist and art worker living in Iceland/ Poland. Currently she is ph.d candidate in the Fine Arts program at Art Academy in Gdańsk, Poland. The main focus of her artists ph.d research is creation of visual objects and artworks that are presenting ontological and conceptual exploration of what will be after anthropocene and what can” grow” on the post-industrial ruins - what kind of communities of different species and what stories can be used from the past to tell a story of future. Her works have been shown both internationally and in the countries that she lives in. Member of AIVAG - Artists In Iceland Visa Action Group. The exhibition is showing imagined artefacts of post apocalyptic humans that in the need of revival of flora that they can rely on travelled to Svalbard where is located a global seed bank. Bank is located close to the seashore and next to the airport so future humans can reach it easily to restore the ecosystem we know. In this show on topic became most important in context of doomsday seeds and plants - ones that are the most important for us in context of farming, ones that are cleansing the soil from pollution called hyperaccumulators and ones that grows really fast, easy to plant and gives a lot of microelements- cardamine. It is also a tribute to post-apocalyptic movie Waterworld (1995) in which the polar ice caps have melted down and most of Earth is underwater and every plant and a gram of soil is worth gold.

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