Anna Godzina
Anna Godzina (1990, Chișinău, Moldova). The physical world is constantly changing. Tiny particles, including atoms, collide, regardless of the forces that hold them together. Everything in the universe, including us, vibrates, moves, nothing is still. This condition of nature is what Godzina’s practice revolves around; the presentation of movement and the sounds that may embody this action.
Her process leads her to beaches and flea markets, through woods, and along city streets.
Often her work starts from found objects, materials such as plastic tubes, iron pipes, wheels, lamps, containers or in some cases materials that can be found in the natural environment, like a fallen tree. These elements are reanimated in the work through the addition of engines and other devices that generate sound and motion. The artist examens the capacity of humans to perceive motion and sound coming from an object in its potential to activate an instinctive response that is then conceptually framed as being alive. She exploits the rhythmical properties of engines and their ability to repeat set patterns of motion, while at the same time allowing errors and ruptures to occur in their seemingly controlled movements. The simple act of falling objects, conditioned to ‘stand up’ again, creates a dream-like state of reality in the artist’s work, as elements become displaced and move in less usual ways, activating the space through their sounds.
Anna Godzina has been exhibiting since 2012. She has shown her work in Moldova, Romania, Poland, Greece and since 2016 in Belgium and the Netherlands. In 2019 Godzina graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp where she was awarded the Hugo Roelandt Prize 2019, the Mathilde Horlait-Dapsens Foundation Prize 2019 and the STRT Schot prize 2019. Following her graduation Godzina presented solo exhibitions at M HKA | Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Marion De Cannière Gallery Space Antwerp and has taken part in several residency programs including AAIR, Antwerp, Belgium and ERGO Collective, Athens, Greece.
