On the Lake, 2024
video, 4K, 60 fps, 8′14″, loop
music: Heyah by Faron
The work depicts an early morning scene: a group of people riding a motorboat on a Polish lake, all in a frenzy, intensely animated, looped as if in a GIF, on a fine line between aggressive frustration and joyful celebration.
Interest in contemporary visual and popular culture, a sense of humour, thematic and aesthetic hyperboles, dexterity in referencing cultural texts and setting them against unexpected cheesiness and kitsch, ease of consistent advanced technology use – such is the domain of an artist scrutinising contemporaneity from a distance and with a grain of salt.
Rafał Dominik (b. 1985 in Warsaw) – visual artist. Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw with a diploma in painting (2009) from Leon Tarasewicz’s studio. Fan of popular culture and understated beauty. A believer that visual arts and art in general are significant to social life, his practice involves introducing both to circulation beyond art galleries. Founder and vocalist of the Galactics disco polo group, author of a blog by a fictitious designer company Mebleks, member of the Czosnek Studio. Continues working with commercial clients on non-standard projects at the intersection of art and mass culture. While firmly rooted in analogue media, began expanding his field of activity to include digital technology: 3D models and animation to GIFs and renders. Fond of experimenting with the VR environment and computer game generating engines; author of drawings, sculptures, digital images and theatrical stage sets. Co-operates with galleries and other institutions in Poland and abroad.
photo: Adam Gut
