Project story · Agnieszka Bekalarczyk
For years I have combined film, music, performance and visual art in my work. In “Gdańsk. City of Light and Shadow” these worlds met in a single show: dance, live music and images projected onto a scale model of the city.
The heroine's emotional states appear as symbols from the subconscious. The guiding themes are freedom, authenticity and rebirth — and alongside them the loneliness that often accompanies change. The city becomes not just a backdrop, but part of the story.
The show was created with Joanna Nadrowska, the Takie Studio project group and Maciej Sadowski. Ńoko Band also performs, and the project features paintings by Marta Wawrzynowicz from the series “The Secret of the Golden Flower”.
The project won the Open IKM competition “Gdańsk on the Model”. This edition was funded by a grant from the City of Gdańsk under the ProfiKultura programme.