Agata Stepien

Interests: dance, ballet, painting, collage, photo

Dr. Agata Stepien - the choreographer and performer, is a professional ballerina who in the shots shows almost ritual movements-dancing-fighting in which she is necessarily accompanied by her own shadow. Born in Cracov in 1986 into a family of Polish artists, she grew up in Spain. She spent the last 12 years studying visual arts in Poland, Spain, Belgium, Portugal and Italy.
Her scientific research and creative work refer to female artistic perception and are based on an interest in intimacy and the female body.

International doctoral defense in Spain in 2016 on the limits of intimacy in women's art. Diploma Cum Laude of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome: Faculty of Visual and Performing Arts.Agata Stępień cooperates with European galleries. Her works are in the permanent collections of museums:

Women's Museum of San José Costa Rica
Antonio Pérez Museum in Cuenca, Spain
San Clemente Spanish Museum
Museum of Krakow

Agata Stepien Performance

A performance video is a short note of movement, emotions and memory. Edited by the author, Agata Stepien, using an analog camera and the stop motion method, it shows the life of a background shadow.

A woman (N. Ehrhardt), by means of choreography, ritually evokes in the form of a shadow what is not obvious, what is ’’subcutaneous", unclear and marginal. The function of art should be interpreted here as a manifestation of what is not obvious, and the artist s search is based on examining the intimacy of women and the extremes of intimate transgression through interpretive and psychoanalytical research, philosophy and the broadly understood humanities of our time.

The artist uses art as a way to emphasize her fear, and defines the process of creation as an act of absorbing emotions. In this way, her work becomes very intimate and constitutes an attractivemotivation for the viewer. In her works, reflections focus on the body as an object of artisticactivity, at the level of creative physical transgression, circulating in search of answers to questionsabout the limits of body image and artistic freedom in the context of contemporary culture. Theartist’s center of interest is the body as an experimental zone, the influence of power, the concept ofownership subject to constant changes, and places where one can define one's own subjectivity.... "They are" silent beings "who keep me company."

The multiple image of the woman's movement disappears in the gesture figure. Thus, exposing them to the danger of being a vision at times real, at times abandoned or distorted. The power of the body manifests itself in the body's own territory, what defines us, and our natural right to it. Without having to dominate or be dominated. My work is closely related to the moon cycle, i.e. the female cycle. Works are most often performed during the full moon.

Images, video and texts credit: agatastepien.com/

A performance video is a short note of movement, emotions and memory

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