JAKUB WAWRZAK
Oasis

One of the important impulses that drove me to create this photo series was the note made in 2010 by the Australian press journalist Jo Chandler. In her intriguing text she expresses the emotions experienced when visiting the Polish-Soviet polar station in Antarctica. Fascinated by the report and the underpinning mystery, I started to create a kind of an archive comprising different materials regarding Polish polar expeditions from the years 1958– 1979. The exhaustive search for informations, articles, reports and photographic documentation helped me ascertain the chronology of events and the reasons why the station was abandoned by subsequent expeditions. A small portion of the White Land gained a new technical representation in the form of a spatial model (diorama) created using digital tools and a computer-controlled miller. The series entitled “Oasis” is an attempt to externalise my imaginations and reflections referring to a place I have never visited.

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