Coal with an imprint of fern from the Carboniferous period, projection, sound composition by Katarzyna Podpora.
I shelter within a dense forest
moist and mellow
In the steady rise and fall
it thickens
Overgrown with moss_decaying
It gleams
Until
Slick_At the junction of two
a metallic shimmer
of shapeless and fluid layers
— circularing landslides
Slime
The sound composition Alchemia by Katarzyna Podpora was created using the friction of animal bones, flint stones, granite pebbles, and seaside sand, the hiss of magnetic tapes, and processed recordings of ceramic clay striking metal bowls.
Laura Adel – interdisciplinary artist. She is currently pursuing a PhD titled “The Tenderness of Art: Research and Creation of Immersive Interactive Installations” at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, under the supervision of Prof. Jakub Jernajczyk. In her artistic practice, she explores the subtlety of the digital world by creating abstract, moving images inspired by natural phenomena. She works with installations, video, and sculptural objects.
Her works have been presented, among others, at the Łaźnia Center for Contemporary Art in Gdańsk and the National Museum – Four Domes Pavilion in Wrocław. She uses new technologies to design visual environments for theater performances, which have been shown at venues such as Studio Theatre in Warsaw and the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria. Developing her original concept of “subcutaneous audio-reactivity,” Adel creates visualizations for music concerts during events and festivals such as the Open Source Festival in Sopot or the WRO Biennale.
As part of the EU-funded Magic Carpets program, she participated in a residency at the Wrocław Institute of Culture. The works created during this time were selected for the international exhibition SUPERORGANISM 2024 in Tartu, Estonia – the European Capital of Culture – summarizing four years of the program’s activity. In February 2025, she held a solo exhibition titled “Tender Bodies”, which concluded a project awarded the Artistic Grant of the Mayor of Wrocław. Laura Adel’s video works are part of the Urban Screen Production collection and are exhibited in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.