Displacement A collaboration with Florencia S.M. Brück shown at Palazzo Zenobio, Venice.

Olczak, Susie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9615-5514 and Brück, Florencia (2018) Displacement A collaboration with Florencia S.M. Brück shown at Palazzo Zenobio, Venice. [Show/Exhibition]

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Abstract

Displacement Digital Projection 2018 Florencia S.M. Brück and Susie Olczak Furniture in a repetitive vortex suspended into water. Representing the displacement from their homes that the people of Lviv after WWII and modern day refugees were subjected to. History keeps repeating itself in an endless loop. By projecting up onto the ceiling of the Palazzio, the viewer is forced to look up, the surreal scene of the spinning chair in water above gives the sense that they are submerged under water. The work sits in-between something peaceful but volatile and uses water as a metaphor for the turbulence that people feel in their life when forced to evacuate their homes. This film was shot by suspending a chair above a Venetian Canal, it looks like an animation but it is important that it was shot in a real situation. This reflects the significance of the fact that these events are often perceived as fictional events to outsiders. Vortex Kinetic sculpture 2018 Susie Olczak This sculpture represents the vortex that people would be in when forced to leave their homes. It is spun by the artist during the collective performance and can by activated by the viewer in future showings. The vertical and horizontal stripes blur when the sculpture is in motion to symbolize the feeling of disorientation that people would have to go through. The vertical form is not centered which gives a sense of unbalance.

Item Type:	Show/Exhibition
Related URLs:	https://bestveniceguides.it/en/2019/09/2...
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
Depositing User:	Susie Olczak
Date Deposited:	04 Jun 2026 11:03
Last Modified:	04 Jun 2026 11:03
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/16010

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